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Precipitate   /prɪsˈɪpɪtˌeɪt/   Listen
Precipitate

noun
1.
A precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering.
verb
(past & past part. precipitated; pres. part. precipitating)
1.
Bring about abruptly.
2.
Separate as a fine suspension of solid particles.
3.
Fall from clouds.  Synonyms: come down, fall.  "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
4.
Fall vertically, sharply, or headlong.
5.
Hurl or throw violently.
adjective
1.
Done with very great haste and without due deliberation.  Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitous.  "Hasty makeshifts take the place of planning" , "Rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion" , "Wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"



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"Precipitate" Quotes from Famous Books



... tide had just left. It was filmed with water. It was a mirror in which the sky was inverted. When a breath of air passed over that polished surface it was as though the earth were a shining bubble which then nearly burst. To dare that foothold might precipitate the intruder on ancient magic to cloudland floating miles beneath the feet. But I had had the propriety to go barefooted, and had lightened my mind before beginning the voyage. Here I felt I was breaking into what was still only the first day, for man had never measured this place ...
— Old Junk • H. M. Tomlinson
... here hot-foot and breathless at a time when common prudence should have kept him in bed. Why? Because he knows that Dr. Bell has the other Rembrandt and will come to prove it, and because he knows that if he can steal the Littimer Rembrandt he can precipitate the very impasse that he has brought about. But he could not steal the picture because ...
— The Crimson Blind • Fred M. White
... with Hume, and his partiality for the writings of Bayle, are more probable sources of a change of sentiment which was in a way predestined by natural bias and cast of mind. Any occasion would serve to precipitate the result. In any case, this result had been attained some years before the publication of the first volume of the Decline and Fall, in 1776. Referring to his preparatory studies for the execution of that work, he says, "As ...
— Gibbon • James Cotter Morison
... about the table. Lee pinned down a map with the small objects upon the board, then leaned back in his chair. "This is our first council with General Jackson. We wait but for the Army of the Valley to precipitate certainly one great battle, perhaps many battles. I think that the fighting about Richmond will be heavier than all that has gone before." An aide entered noiselessly with a paper in his hand. "From the President, sir," he said. Lee rose and took the note ...
— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston
... so precipitate or uncharitable as to act strongly upon information such as this. Before she even said a word to Dorothy, she made further inquiry. She made very minute inquiry, writing even to her very old and intimate friend Mrs. Ellison, of Lessboro',—writing ...
— He Knew He Was Right • Anthony Trollope


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