Were we lyuing, when we made such festination to depart?. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
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 work is hurrying to get through itself before devolving into violent noise. From Wordnik.com. ["...my music is also seductive, even spiritual"] Reference
Strive not to run like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Morals] Reference
Strive not to run, like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6] Reference
Body movements to counteract the tendency to rigidity in the flexor groups of spinal muscles will be especially useful, as the stiffness of these is one of the causes of displacement forward of the centre of gravity, a displacement which results in the festination symptom usually seen in such cases. From Wordnik.com. [Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria] Reference
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