What's the difference between festinate and hasty?

Festinate


Definition:

  • (a.) Hasty; hurried.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Palilalia is a speaking disorder that has been likened to the festinating gait of Parkinsonian patients.
  • (2) Since 70 years old, this hypertensive patient developed forgetfulness, unsteady gait and festination.

Hasty


Definition:

  • (n.) Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch.
  • (n.) Demanding haste or immediate action.
  • (n.) Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.
  • (n.) Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.
  • (n.) Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.
  • (n.) Forward; early; first ripe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aim of this report is a stress of over-hasty classification to the surgical treatment of goiter diagnosed as hyperactive.
  • (2) On Saturday an idle digg ing machine signalled the hasty clearing of the building site to make way for the refugees, who have fled from countries including Syria and Eritrea .
  • (3) These will prepare you to stand your ground or beat a hasty retreat, depending on the threat.
  • (4) Plagued by prison riots, IRA breakouts, illegal deportations, verdicts that found him in contempt of court, and over-hasty legislation on dogs, he acquired a reputation – as home secretaries often do – for being accident-prone.
  • (5) Thus, we should not be too hasty in our extrapolations of data, even among closely related species.
  • (6) Hastie has been cleared of any wrongdoing in that incident by the ADF.
  • (7) After saying his piece, Hastie handed over to Howard, who had earlier qualified that he was just there to “make up the number”.
  • (8) For long periods Argentina had been stifled by a fine counterpunching opposition, but it would be a little hasty to fret too much about them after this performance.
  • (9) Therefore, it is prudent to avoid making hasty purchasing decisions to accomplish a quick-fix solution to managing quality assurance activities.
  • (10) Serious public opposition to practices such as fracking and tar sands extraction, as well as the building of major pipelines has lead to a hasty surge in the transport of oil by freight.
  • (11) Rubbishing Hastie is not Keogh’s style, though Guardian Australia understands the story did originate from people within the Labor party .
  • (12) conclude that with the development of less traumatic methods of tubal occlusion there is no longer any justification for a hasty decision to sterilize at the time of operative delivery or gynecological surgery, simply to "avoid another operation."
  • (13) The author underline that over hasty neoplasm diagnosis always exerts an unjustified and destructive psychologic influence on patient and his family.
  • (14) But we all know that Andrew Hastie will have to defend all of the same captain’s picks as the rest of Tony Abbott’s team will have to defend.” But Plibersek stopped short of criticising Hastie’s military record, declining to comment on reports that he had been linked to a second matter that had been subject to investigation by the Australian defence force, this one involving the accidental killing of two Afghan boys by a US helicopter crew who were in contact with Hastie’s ground unit.
  • (15) The rapidity with which technology has perpetuated ethical issues within the clinical setting has often lead to hasty and arbitrary decision-making.
  • (16) Last month it was reported a member of a unit commanded by Hastie in Afghanistan had cut off the hands of a dead insurgent to secure his fingerprints.
  • (17) The Fabian Beatrice Webb used to try to cheer her more impetuous colleagues with the thought of the inevitability of gradualism, but nowadays she is looking a little hasty.
  • (18) I care about the direction of Australia,” Hastie said.
  • (19) Bill Shorten says Canning byelection is a chance to tell Abbott 'enough is enough' Read more The 2013 incident in Afghanistan was carried out by one or more soldiers under the command of then Captain Andrew Hastie who is standing for the West Australian seat of Canning, Fairfax Media reported on Saturday.
  • (20) – and, secondly, swears she will not make any hasty 'shoot-me-if-you-see-me-in-a-boat' pronouncements about her future.

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