[f. ppl. stem of L. festīnāre to hasten.] † a. intr. To hasten, make haste (obs. rare–1). b. trans. To hasten, accelerate.
a. 1652. F. Kirkman, Clerio & Lozia, 128. This fair Princess festinated rather to see her servant, than those.
b. 1812. Shelley, Lett. to Ld. Ellenborough, Prose Wks. 1888, II. 383. I warn you against festinating that period. Ibid. (1812), Let., in Hogg, Life (1858), II. iii. 100. It is possible to festinate, or retard, the progress of human perfectibility.
