precipitantly

English

Etymology

Adverb

precipitantly (comparative more precipitantly, superlative most precipitantly)

In a precipitant or headlong manner; with foolish or rash haste.
Synonyms: precipitately, (archaic) precipitant
- 1660 February, John Milton, The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof, Compar’d with the Inconveniencies and Dangers of Readmitting Kingship in this Nation; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 793:
  Us if he ſhall hear now, how much leſs will he hear when we cry hereafter, who once deliver'd by him from a King, and not without wondrous Acts of his Providence, inſenſible and unworthy of thoſe high Mercies, are returning precipitantly, if he withold us not, back to the Captivity from whence he freed us.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “precipitantly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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