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v. - Act or move at high speed.

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  • There's also, in some of his works, a sense of festination -- of explosive speed, though that doesn't have quite the same connotation as "to festinate" -- as though the...
  • Advise the duke, where you are going, to a most festinate preparation: we are bound to the like.
  • But RIM needs to be careful, because innovations from elsewhere could signal its festinate demise.
  • In the festinate to organisation and compel systems however, whatever principle hit been overlooked:
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