PRECIPITANT • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Precipitant

... and the Londoners too, were in a strange consternation at this mistake of their general; and had the king, whose great misfortune was always to follow precipitant advices,—had the king, I say, pushed on his first design, which he had formed with very good reason, and for which he had been dodging with Essex eight or ten days, viz., of marching directly to London, where he had a very great interest, and where his friends were not yet oppressed and impoverished, ...

— Memoirs of a Cavalier • Daniel Defoe