festinate

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The Word of the Day for April 5 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."