Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRE-CIP'I-TATE, a.

1. Falling, flowing or rushing with steep descent. Precipitate the furious torrent flows. – Prior.
2. Headlong; over hasty; rashly hasty; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.
3. Adopted with haste or without due deliberation; hasty; as, a precipitate measure.
4. Hasty; violent; terminating speedily in death; as, a precipitate case of disease. – Arbuthnot.