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Precipitant

noun

An agent that causes a precipitate to form.

adjective

Done with very great haste and without due deliberation. Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitate, 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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"Precipitant" Quotes from Famous Books

... every passion; and, partial to their own condition, and to their own pursuits, they think that every scene is inferior to that in which they are placed. Roused alike by success and by misfortune, they are sanguine, ardent, and precipitant; and leave, to the more knowing ages which succeed them, monuments of imperfect skill, and of rude execution of every art; but they leave likewise the marks of a vigorous and ardent spirit, which their successors are not always qualified ...

— An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition • Adam Ferguson, L.L.D.

... to ordinary medical treatment; he especially would not have taken antibiotics even if he had died without them because previous courses of antibiotics had been the precipitant of life-threatening conditions that first brought John to my care. John used his last strength to get to me because he knew that had a hospital gotten its clutches on him the medical doctors would have ...

— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon

... advis'd] Therefore be not precipitant; consider well what we are to do. Advis'd is the word ...

— Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson

... will direct me where I shall find the best information of what is to be said on both sides. It is a subject vast in its present extent and future consequences. The imperfect hints which now float in my mind, tend rather to the formation of an opinion that our government has been precipitant and severe in the resolutions taken against the Bostonians[867]. Well do you know that I have no kindness for that race. But nations, or bodies of men, should, as well as individuals, have a fair trial, and not be condemned on ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell

... Toland admits Epsom never had—it lacks a river. "One thing is wanting—and happy is the situation that wants no more; for in this place notwithstanding the medicinal waters, and sufficient of sweetes for domestic use, are not to be heard the precipitant murmurs of impetuous cascades. There are no purling streams in our groves, to tempt the shrill notes of the warbling choristers, whose never-ceasing ...

— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker