precipitate

UK /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/ US /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/
verb 5adj 5noun 2

Definitions

verb

1

To make something happen suddenly and quickly.

to precipitate a journey, or a conflict

it precipitated their success

2

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.

3

To send violently into a certain state or condition.

we were precipitated into a conflict

4

(chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.

Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate.

5

(chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.

adj

1

headlong; falling steeply or vertically.

When the full stores their ancient bounds disdain, / Precipitate the furious torrent flows.

2

Very steep; precipitous.

3

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.

4

Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.

The king was too precipitate in declaring war.

a precipitate case of disease

5

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

1

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.

2

A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

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