| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Act or move at high speed.[Wordnet] 2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: festinating, festinated, festinates, festinater, festinaters, festinatingly and festinatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Hasty; hurried.[Websters]
2. Being hasty, headlong or rash. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb festinately.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (festinately) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective festinate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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"FESTINATE" is a common misspelling or typo for: festinater, festinates, festinated. |
Date "FESTINATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references) |
| Etymology:Festinate \Fes"ti*nate\, adjective. [Latin expression festinatus, past participle of festinare to hasten.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FESTINATE
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Hasty; hurried. [Not in use.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Pronunciation] (obsolete) hurried, hasty 1605: Advise the Duke where you are going, to a most festinate preparation — William Shakespeare, King Lear III.vii. (references) | 2: [Pronunciation] (obsolete) To hurry. 1605: Advise the Duke where you are going, to a most festinate preparation — William Shakespeare, King Lear III.vii. (references) | |
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