precipitately

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  1. In a precipitate manner; with sudden descent; headlong; hastily; without due deliberation; with a sudden subsiding motion. Ill-counsell'd force by its own native weight precipitately falls. Francis, tr. of Horace's Odes, iii. 4. Driven to that state of mind in which we are more ready to act precipitately than to reason right. Goldsmith, Vicar, xviii. Not so brave Arnall; with a weight of skull, Furious he dives, precipitately dull. Pope, Dunciad, ii. 316.

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  • The enemy was routed and fled precipitately, abandoning a large amount of arms, ammunition, knapsacks, and baggage. —  The Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • It happened that the mysterious couple wished to leave the country precipitately, and—that they were as delighted to dispose to us of their furniture and cell as we were to acquire them. —  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician, Volume 2
  • Hulloo!" he added, precipitately--"there go the carbines I heard, clearly, two explosions in rapid succession; then a general discharge, as of several persons firing at once, and at last, five continuous reports, fainter, but more regular, and like the several emptyings of a revolver. —  Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
  • At St. Marks the Indians fled precipitately, and the little Spanish garrison, after a glimpse of the investing force, asked only that receipts be given for the movable property confiscated. —  The Reign of Andrew Jackson
  • Changing the subject a little precipitately, as if it gave him pain, he told me, as above, that I might prepare on Friday for Kent; and I parted with him with greater pleasure than ever I did in my life. —  Pamela, Volume II
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