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Etymology

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festinate +‎ -ly

Adverb

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festinately (comparative more festinately, superlative most festinately)

  1. (obsolete) In a festinate manner; hastily; hurriedly.
    • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
      Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither.