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▪ I. ˈfestinate, a. Obs. exc. arch.
[ad. L. festīnāt-us, pa. pple. of festīnāre: see next.]
Hasty, hurried.
1605Shakes. Lear iii. vii. 10 Aduice the Duke where you are going, to a most festinate [pr. festiuate] preparation. 1822E. Nathan Langreath III. 292 [A pedantic speaker says:] Let me not be too festinate in hoping [etc.].
Hence ˈfestinately adv., hastily, speedily.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iii. i. 6 Bring him festinatly hither. 1886G. B. Shaw Let. 11 Sept. (1965) 160 Festinately yrs GBS. 1923Glasgow Herald 13 Dec. 4 Others have said, also too festinately, that Dr. Whyte owed his power to his interest in literature.
▪ II. festinate, v.|ˈfɛstɪneɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of L. festīnāre to hasten.]
†a. intr. To hasten, make haste (obs. rare—1).
b. trans. To hasten, accelerate.
a.1652F. Kirkman Clerio & Lozia 128 This fair Princess festinated rather to see her servant, than those.
b.1812Shelley Let. to Ld. Ellenborough Prose Wks. 1888 II. 383, I warn you against festinating that period. 1812― Let. in Hogg Life (1858) II. iii. 100 It is possible to festinate, or retard, the progress of human perfectibility. |