festinate

IPA: fˈɛstʌnʌt

verb

  • (medicine) To become involuntarily quicker, such as when walking or speaking, due to certain disorders.
  • (obsolete) To hurry.

adjective

  • (obsolete) Hurried, hasty.
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Examples of "festinate" in Sentences

  • Advise the duke, where you are going, to a most festinate preparation: we are bound to the like.
  • But RIM needs to be careful, because innovations from elsewhere could signal its festinate demise.
  • Nuntiate autem patri meo omnem gloriam meam in Aegypto, et omnia quae vidistis: et festinate, et descendere facite patrem meum huc.
  • 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.

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