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precipitately

adv

Etymology

From precipitate + -ly.

  1. derived from praecipitātus
  2. suffixed as precipitately — “precipitate + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a precipitate manner.

    • She sains herself, and the thief takes to flight so precipitately as to leave behind her a copper pan of a form never seen before.
    • He talked precipitately, and I did not try to stop him.
    • "That's that!" said Mailey, folding up the paper. "Now, Mr. Thomas Didymus, I leave you to your conclusions," and the enthusiast vanished out of the office as precipitately as he had entered.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA