Definition of "festinate"

festinate

/ˈfɛs.tɪˌneɪt/

verb
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. (obsolete) To hurry.
adjective
comparative more festinate, superlative most festinate
1. (obsolete) Hurried, hasty.
  Quotations
  Advise the Duke where you are going, to a most festinate preparation.
  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, [Act III, scene vii]