festīnātĭo (noun F) : id.
* A hastening, haste, hurry, despatch, speed (class., in the sing. and plur.): quid haec tanta celeritas festinatioque significat?Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 96; cf.: mea festinatio,id. Phil. 3, 1, 2: epistola plena festinationis et pulveris,id. Att. 5, 14, 2: omni festinatione properare in patriam,id. Fam. 12, 25, 3: tempus festinationis an otii,id. de Or. 3, 55, 211; cf. Quint. 1, 1, 32: beneficium festinatione praeripere,Cic. Phil. 14, 2, 5: ignoscas velim huic festinationi meae,id. Fam. 5, 12, 1: cujus (rei) festinationem mihi tollis,id. Att. 13, 1, 2: praematura,Liv. 42, 16 fin.—In plur.: cavendum est ne in festinationibus suscipiamus nimias celeritates,Cic. Off. 1, 36, 131.

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