festinate

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The Word of the Day for June 28 is:

festinate   \FESS-tuh-nut\   adjective 
     : hasty 

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." 





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