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precipitant

ADJECTIVE
  1. done with very great haste and without due deliberation
    hasty marriage seldom proveth well
    rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion
    wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king
    hasty makeshifts take the place of planning
NOUN
  1. an agent that causes a precipitate to form

How To Use precipitant In A Sentence

  • Such pediatric catatonia - more often found in boys than in girls - has the same characteristics, similar precipitants and the same response to treatments as adult catatonia.
  • While it is a statistical certainty that some Ecstasy users will present for psychiatric services, the current available data shed little light on whether Ecstasy use is a precipitant, modifier or consequence of psychiatric illness.
  • God hath fitted for the special use of these times with eminent and ample gifts, and those perhaps neither among the priests nor among the Pharisees, and we in the haste of a precipitant zeal shall make no distinction, but resolve to stop their mouths, because we fear they come with new and dangerous opinions, as we commonly forejudge them ere we understand them; no less than woe to us, while, thinking thus to defend the Gospel, we are found the persecutors. Areopagitica
  • He uses too many Latin epithets, like _amusive_ and _precipitant_, and calls a fish-line Brief History of English and American Literature
  • The precipitant was his involvement in an incident of stealing in a department store, following which he was put on probation. Clinical Work with Adolescents
  • In addition to a general level of irritability, children with mania also present with extremely impairing dysphoric, explosive episodes that generally occur daily with little or no precipitant.
  • Unemployment is very often the precipitant or at least a contributor to family homicides," Mr. Fox said. Mayor Touts 'Safest Decade'
  • Pending or actual separation, issuance of a restraining order, and threatening behavior are common precipitants.
  • The model protein lysozyme in the presence of the precipitant, sodium chloride, was used in this study.
  • But there are issues that likely arose between the two of them that may have been part of the precipitant here. CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2009
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