precipitant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration; hasty, impulsive, rash.

   “[T]heſe dreams the præcipitant and unskilfull are forvvard to conceit to be Repreſentations extraordinary and ſupernatural, vvhich they call Revelations or Viſions, of vvhich there can be no certainty at all no more then of a Dream.”

2. sıfat Of a fall: straight downwards; headlong.

   “[W]ithout further pauſe / Down right into the Worlds firſt Region throws / His flight precipitant, and windes with eaſe / Through the pure marble Air his oblique way / Amongſt innumerable Starrs, […]”

3. sıfat Acting, happening, or moving quickly; fast, rapid, swift; also, abrupt, sudden, unexpected.

   “Shou'd he return, that troop ſo blithe and bold, / VVith purple robes invvrought, and ſtiff vvith gold, / Precipitant in fear, vvou'd vving their flight, / And curſe their cumbrous pride's unvvieldy vveight.”

4. sıfat That causes precipitation (“formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid as a result of a chemical reaction”).
5. zarf Synonym of precipitantly (“in a precipitant or headlong manner; with foolish or rash haste”).

   “The Hoary Froſts, and Northern Blaſts take care / Thy muddy Bev'rage to ſerene, and drive / Præcipitant the baſer, ropy Lees.”

6. isim Something which causes or hastens the occurrence of an act or event; specifically (chiefly psychology), something which brings about a mental or physiological condition.
7. isim A substance that, when added to a solution, causes a dissolved substance to form a precipitate.

   “[B]y putting ſome of the arſenical liquor into a ſtrong ſolution of common ſublimate made in fair vvater […] vve had a copious precipitate, ſuch as might have been expected from an alcaline precipitant; […]”