Obs. rare. [ad. L. festīnāt-us, pa. pple. of festīnāre: see next.] Hasty, hurried.
1605. Shaks., Lear, III. vii. 10. Aduice the Duke where you are going, to a most festinate [pr. festiuate] preparation.
1822. Mrs. E. Nathan, Langreath, III. 292. [A pedantic speaker says:] Let me not be too festinate, in hoping that our eyes may yet behold the King and the Ploughman—the Peer and the Dustman—seated in glorious equality together round the festive board.
Hence Festinately adv., hastily, speedily.
1588. Shaks., Loves Labour’s Lost, III. i. 6. Bring him festinatly hither.
