单词 | festinate |
释义 | festinateadj. Hasty, hurried. In later use (Medicine): exhibiting festination of gait or speech (see festination n. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adjective] > acting with haste > hasty or hurried hastivea1325 raplyc1390 runninga1400 rapec1410 precipitate1545 hasty1560 abrupt1576 festinate1598 breathless1606 hasteful1610 precipitatedc1625 arreptitious1653 hurried1667 prerupt1727 hurry-scurry1732 rush1879 rushed1888 scampered1894 rush-round1903 rushy1976 drive-by1992 1598 [implied in: W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iii. i. l. 5 Bring him festinatly hither. (at festinately adv.)]. a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) iii. vii. 10 Aduice the Duke where you are going, to a most festinate [printed festiuate; 1608 festuant] preparation. 1822 E. Nathan Langreath III. 292 [A pedantic speaker says:] Let me not be too festinate in hoping [etc.]. 1840 T. Eagles Llouvorko ii. 27 Be not so festinate, young man. 1933 McGill Med. Jrnl. 3–5 35 Small, shuffling steps which tend to increase in rate and the hurrying or festinate gait which is due to the push of the flexed and rigid body. 1988 H. Mantel Eight Months on Ghazzah St. 69 A..young woman, with a flawless ivory skin, a festinate way of speaking, and large eyes. 2014 P. L. Pearl & H. Emsellem Neuro-Logic 116 The gait appears shuffling, and the patient cannot actually come to a stop easily, described as a festinating or festinate gait. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). festinatev. 1. transitive. To hasten or accelerate (something); to hurry (a person). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > put on (speed) > accelerate festinate1556 accelerate1570 quicken1605 swiften1638 urgea1721 press1742 smarten1825 speed1856 to hit up1893 1556 T. Hill tr. B. Cocles Brief Epitomye Phisiognomie xxi. sig. C.iii The tounge come swyfte..: declareth that manne to be a foole, violente or hastie in wrathe..: for the mouablenes and caliditie of the spyryttes, festinating [L. festinantem] or hastininge the pronounciation without consideracion. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. O3 He would accelerate & festinate his procrastinating ministers and commissaries in the countrey, by Letters as expedite as could bee. 1648 R. Baron Erotopaignion 97 He sharpned and festinated his Armies animosity with Brachylogie. 1812 P. B. Shelley Let. 18 Mar. (1964) I. 276 It is possible to festinate or retard the progress of human perfectibility. 1970 RQ 9 255 Something to festinate the coming of spring or to take your mind off The Four Horsemen. Allons! 2007 Social Action (New Delhi) July-Sept. 283 It has to festinate its struggle, make itself heard and prominent. 2. intransitive. To hurry, make haste. Also (Medicine): to exhibit festination of gait or speech (see festination n. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)] > hasten or hurry hiec1250 skelta1400 hasty?a1425 hasten1534 festinate1652 to look sharp1680 to make play1799 hurry-scurry1809 to tumble up1826 crowd1838 rush1859 hurry1871 to get a move on1888 hurry and scurry1889 to buck up1890 to get a hump on1892 to get a wiggle on1896 to shake a leg1904 to smack it about1914 flurry1917 to step on it (her)1923 to make it snappy1926 jildi1930 to get an iggri on1946 ert- 1652 F. Kirkman tr. A. Du Périer Loves Clerio & Lozia 128 This fair Princess festinated [Fr. hasta] rather to see her servant, than those. 1751 W. Kenrick Old Woman's Dunciad 22 He festinates precipitate. 1872 Punch 27 Jan. 34/2 Went to the Saloon, but it immediately adjourned, on the motion of Mr. Theodor Stuke, to enable the Lady Members to festinate to the Congress. 1953 Irish Writing No. 22. 46 The mills of God are, when God willeth, Disinclined to festinate. 1992 I. Bamforth Sons & Pioneers i. 17 You'll have to festinate to another place. 2007 Comprehensive Nursing Care Parkinson's Dis. 15 Other patients may festinate, or take quick short steps forward uncontrollably. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1598v.1556 |
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