Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Hasty.
- intransitive verb To hasten.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hasty; hurried.
- To quicken the steps involuntarily when walking, as in paralysis agitans.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Hasty; hurried.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
hurry . - adjective obsolete
hurried ,hasty
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb act or move at high speed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
"...my music is also seductive, even spiritual" Patrick J. Smith 2008
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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.
Archive 2008-12-01 Patrick J. Smith 2008
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Nuntiate autem patri meo omnem gloriam meam in Aegypto, et omnia quae vidistis: et festinate, et descendere facite patrem meum huc.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Advise the duke, where you are going, to a most festinate preparation: we are bound to the like.
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But RIM needs to be careful, because innovations from elsewhere could signal its festinate demise.
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs Fritz Nelson 2010
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But RIM needs to be careful, because innovations from elsewhere could signal its festinate demise.
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs Fritz Nelson 2010
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But RIM needs to be careful, because innovations from elsewhere could signal its festinate demise.
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But RIM needs to be careful, because innovations from elsewhere could signal its festinate demise.
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs Fritz Nelson 2010
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But RIM needs to be careful, because innovations from elsewhere could signal its festinate demise.
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But RIM needs to be careful, because innovations from elsewhere could signal its festinate demise.
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs Fritz Nelson 2010
wackyvorlon commented on the word festinate
Wonderful! I hadn't run across this one before. It reminds me of the words of Caesar, Festina lente!
September 23, 2008