præcipitated

A form of precipitated — Hastened; hurried.

Meanings

adjectivepræcipitated (comparative more præcipitated, superlative most præcipitated)

comparative more præcipitated · superlative most præcipitated

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of precipitated.
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of præcipitate
    1 more example

    […] Apollo sent her to Leucata Petra, where she præcipitated her self, and was forthwith freed; and when she would needs know of him a reason of it, he told her again, that he had often observed Jupiter, when he was enamored on Juno, thither go to ease, and wash himself, and after him diverse others.

    1836, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, thirteenth edition, volume II, page 390
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