Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Haste.
- n. Specifically In medicine, involuntary hurrying in walking, observed in some nervous diseases.
Wiktionary
- n. The involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g, Parkinson's disease)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Haste; hurry.
WordNet 3.0
- n. involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g., Parkinson's disease)
Examples
“There's also, in some of his works, a sense of festination -- of explosive speed, though that doesn't have quite the same connotation as "to festinate" -- as though the work is hurrying to get through itself before devolving into violent noise.”
“Were we lyuing, when we made such festination to depart?”
“Body movements to counteract the tendency to rigidity in the flexor groups of spinal muscles will be especially useful, as the stiffness of these is one of the causes of displacement forward of the centre of gravity, a displacement which results in the festination symptom usually seen in such cases.”
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
“Strive not to run, like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness.”
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
“Strive not to run like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness.”
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