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									[ adjective ] done with very great haste and without due deliberation  Synonyms Examples "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king" Related terms | 
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									[ noun ] an agent that causes a precipitate to form  Related terms | 
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