To hasten without preparation.

To separate from a solution as a precipitate. See
Precipitate, n.

To throw headlong; to cast down from a precipice or
height.

To dash or fall headlong.

To urge or press on with eager haste or violence;
to cause to happen, or come to a crisis, suddenly or too soon; as,
precipitate a journey, or a conflict.

Ending quickly in death; brief and fatal; as, a
precipitate case of disease.

Lacking due deliberation or care; hurried; said or
done before the time; as, a precipitate measure.

Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in
declaring war.

Falling, flowing, or rushing, with steep descent;
headlong.

To separate from a solution, or other medium, in
the form of a precipitate; as, water precipitates camphor when in
solution with alcohol.