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preˈcipitantly, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a precipitant manner; precipitately.
1. With headlong fall or descent; headlong. Also fig.
a1620J. Dyke Right Receiving (1640) Ep. Rdr., Precipitantly falling from an higher excellency then he was any way worthy of. 1642W. Price Serm. 14 No man precipitantly falls to the worst at first. 1773J. Ross Fratricide iii. 996 (MS.) To support me To the first dreadful precipice, from whence To dash myself precipitantly down.
2. With headlong movement; hurryingly, very swiftly, at great speed; suddenly, abruptly.
1660Milton Free Commw. Wks. 1851 V. 444 Returning precipitantly..back to the Captivity from whence he freed us. 1718Hickes & Nelson J. Kettlewell iii. xliv. 300 Being forced precipitantly to quit that Kingdom. 1753A. Murphy Gray's-Inn Jrnl. No. 23 The Suicide urges precipitantly to the Tribunal of his offended God.
3. With undue haste; hastily, rashly.
1646S. Bolton Arraignm. Err. 98 We..are to receive them as men, that is, rationally, not precipitantly, deliberately, not rashly. 1793W. Roberts Looker-on No. 37 (1794) II. 52 It does that coolly and temperately which might otherwise be done precipitantly and lavishly. 1821Examiner 8/2 We..somewhat too precipitantly declined attention to the other performance. |