单词 | festination |
释义 | festinationn. 1. Haste, speed. Also: an instance of this. Cf. festinate v. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > haste hiec1175 hightc1225 rapa1250 hyingc1275 rape?a1300 rekec1330 hastiheada1393 pressa1393 hastea1400 unhonea1400 racec1400 gethea1500 festination1541 festinancy1660 hurry1692 festinance1727 scurry1823 rush1849 jildi1890 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxv. f. 50 [52] To come..to Rome at his leysour without festination or trauayle. 1618 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 173 The Solemnitie with much festination, and little reuerence is performed. 1661 K. W. Confused Characters 95 He's a..Cervus in his speed, & festination. 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 37 Festination proceeds from the Devil, (says a Learned Doctor). 1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis viii. 177 The temerity of a blind festination. a1973 W. H. Auden Coll. Poems (1994) 886 Sworn foe to festination, daunter of drivers and planes. 2. Medicine. A manner of walking characterized by taking short steps which become progressively faster, occurring esp. in persons with Parkinson's disease. Also: a similar acceleration affecting other movements and speech. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > urgent > moving with urgent speed > involuntary festination1870 1870 Med. Rec. (N.Y.) 15 July 242/2 And this brings me to mention a phenomenon which many writers have regarded as characteristic of paralysis agitans, that is, the festination (scelotyrbe festinans of Sauvages), or irresistible impulse to go forward. 1973 O. Sacks Awakenings (1976) 185 Her voice was monotonous and uninflected,..with some tendency to hurry (vocal festination). 2010 G. Byrne & C. Neville Community Mental Health for Older People xv. 120 Look for abnormal gait, such as the shuffling gait, festination (shortening of stride and quickening of gait) and the absent arm swing of Parkinson's disease. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1541 |
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