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Precipitate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Falling, flowing or rushing with steep descent.

2. Precipitate the furious torrent flows.

3. Headlong; over hasty; rashly hasty; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.

4. Adopted with haste or without due deliberation; hasty; as a precipitate measure.

5. Hasty; violent; terminating speedily in death; as a precipitate case of disease.

Precipitate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A substance which, having been dissolved, is again separated from its solvent and thrown to the bottom of the vessel by pouring another liquor upon it.

2. Precipitate per se,

3. Red precipitate the red oxyd or peroxyd of mercury.

Precipitate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To fall headlong.

2. To fall to the bottom of a vessel, as sediment, or any substance in solution.

3. To hasten without preparation.

Precipitate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To throw headlong; as, he precipitated himself from a rock.

2. To urge or press with eagerness or violence; as, to precipitate a flight.

3. To hasten.

4. Short intermittent and swift recurrent pains do precipitate patients into consumptions.

5. To hurry blindly or rashly.

6. If they be daring, it may precipitate their designs and prove dangerous.

7. To throw to the bottom of a vessel; as a substance in solution.

8. All metals may be precipitated by alkaline salts.

Precipitate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.

2. Lacking due deliberation or care; hurried; said or done before the time; as, a precipitate measure.

3. Falling, flowing, or rushing, with steep descent; headlong.

4. Ending quickly in death; brief and fatal; as, a precipitate case of disease.

Precipitate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An insoluble substance separated from a solution in a concrete state by the action of some reagent added to the solution, or of some force, such as heat or cold. The precipitate may fall to the bottom (whence the name), may be diffused through the solution, or may float at or near the surface.

Precipitate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To dash or fall headlong.

2. To hasten without preparation.

3. To separate from a solution as a precipitate. See Precipitate, n.

Precipitate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To throw headlong; to cast down from a precipice or height.

2. To urge or press on with eager haste or violence; to cause to happen, or come to a crisis, suddenly or too soon; as, precipitate a journey, or a conflict.

3. To separate from a solution, or other medium, in the form of a precipitate; as, water precipitates camphor when in solution with alcohol.

Precipitated [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Hurried; hastened rashly; thrown headlong.

Precipitated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Precipitately [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Headlong; with steep descent.

2. Hastily; with rash haste; without due caution. Neither praise nor censure precipitately

Precipitately [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly.