festinate

First attested in 1556; Borrowed from Latin festīnātus, perfect passive participle of festīnō (“to hurry”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

verb

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛs.tɪˌneɪt/

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adjective

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛstɪnət/

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festinate (third-person singular simple present festinates, present participle festinating, simple past and past participle festinated)

1. (medicine) To become involuntarily quicker, such as when walking or speaking, due to certain disorders.
2. (intransitive) To hurry, make haste.
3. (transitive) To accelerate, quicken, hasten, hurry (something or someone).

festinate (comparative more festinate, superlative most festinate)

1. (obsolete) Hurried, hasty.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:

     Advise the Duke where you are going, to a most festinate preparation.

• festinately

festīnāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of festīnō

festinate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of festinar combined with te