Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a precipitate manner; with sudden descent; headlong; hastily; without due deliberation; with a sudden subsiding motion.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a precipitate manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. at breakneck speed
Etymologies
- precipitate + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Earl, invigorated with hope and joy, had by the force of his arm, almost wrenched from its fastening, one of the iron bars of the grate; his foot was lifted to the stanchion, ready to aid him in escaping through the opening, when he was seized by the guards of the Baron, and conveyed precipitately from the prison.”
“Austrian minister, is recalled precipitately, with orders not to take leave. our papers joined Pucci (796) with him in this recall, but I do not find with any foundation.”
“The king's sons precipitately kick feet; Donalbain never returns to a stage, we notice”
“The dog-musher let go of him precipitately, with action similar to that of a man who has picked up live fire.”
“Then he whirled about to prevent attack from behind, and all those in that quarter fled precipitately.”
“Madeline was never in evidence, having precipitately fled to the inner room.”
“He was always keyed up, alert for attack, wary of being attacked, with an eye for sudden and unexpected missiles, prepared to act precipitately and coolly, to leap in with a flash of teeth, or to leap away with a menacing snarl.”
“The Jouberts have been instrumental in establishing the Big Cats Initiative with National Geographic, designed as an emergency action fund to drive attention to the big cats and develop real solutions to stop the decline that has seen lion numbers precipitately drop in the past 50 years.”
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“He would have started precipitately down the bank had not Jacob Welse caught his arm.”
“A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper-lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, by peering querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages.”
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Words gathered while reading works of Joseph Conrad.
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pikachu He talked precipitately, and I did not try to stop him. --Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) Mar 8, 2011