precipitate
Definitions
verb
To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
to precipitate a journey, or a conflict
it precipitated their success
To throw an object or person from a great height.
In gallopping heedlessly along, with her eyes turned upwards, she had unwarily approached too near the bank; it had given way with her, and she and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled margin of the river.
To send violently into a certain state or condition.
we were precipitated into a conflict
(chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate.
(chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
adj
headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
When the full stores their ancient bounds disdain, / Precipitate the furious torrent flows.
Very steep; precipitous.
With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
Though thoughtful far beyond your years, you are very inexperienced; and I would not have a preference that may originate in your little knowledge of others, or a romantic exaggeration of slight kindnesses, lead you into a precipitate union with me, unless you most seriously examine your own heart, and weigh the various consequences.
Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
The king was too precipitate in declaring war.
a precipitate case of disease
Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
It had cost me a distinct psychological effort to do so, and now that I was shut inside I had a momentary longing for precipitate retreat.
noun
A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
As for the musculature it is a precipitate of Spirit and the signature of the cosmos is in it.
A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.