Got nosy about the word "festination" Looked it up on the net - which uses 140 dictionaries(????) it says. No such word. Looked up "festinate" - this turned out to be a verb meaning to hasten and an adjective meaning hasty. derived from the Latin " festinare " meaning, --guess what -- to hasten. The dates given for it were around 1600. - WOW are some of you guys that old. Love to all Bob Anibal