festination

IPA: fɛstʌnˈeɪʃʌn

The involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g. Parkinson's disease).
An involuntary quickening of speech in some speech disorders.

Examples of "festination" in Sentences

Were we lyuing, when we made such festination to depart?
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.
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.
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.
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.