Word: Festinate

The Word of the Day for Apr 05 is:
festinate \FESS-tuh-nut\ adjective

: hasty
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Example sentence:
"Even [the company's] successes ... are vestiges of 1990s thinking. They may halt a festinate death, but you don't build a company around them." (Fritz Nelson, Network Computing, August 21, 2000)

Did you know?

"Festinate" is one among many in the category of words whose first recorded use is in the works of Shakespeare ("Advise the Duke where you are going, to a most festinate preparation." — King Lear, III.vii.10). Perhaps the Bard knew about "festinatus," the Latin predecessor of "festinate," or was familiar with the Latin proverb "festina lente" — "make haste slowly." Shakespeare also gets credit for the adverb "festinately" (first seen in Love's Labour's Lost, III. i. 6: "Bring him festinately hither."), but another writer beat him to the verb "festinate" (pronounced \FESS-tuh-nayt\), meaning "to hasten."

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

My sentence:
"Festinate" reminds me of the word "fester" and all it's implications, therefore I shall make a festinate post so I may quickly rid myself of the unappealing visual imagery.