festinately
English
Adverb
festinately (comparative more festinately, superlative most festinately)
- (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.
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