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The act or process from a solution. (more info) 1. The act of precipitating, or the state of being precipitated, or thrown headlong. In peril of precipitation From off rock Tarpeian. Shak. 2. A falling, flowing, or rushing downward with violence

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The act or process from a solution. (more info) 1. The act of precipitating, or the state of being precipitated, or thrown headlong. In peril of precipitation From off rock Tarpeian. Shak. 2. A falling, flowing, or rushing downward with violence and rapidity. The hurry, precipitation, and rapid motion of the water, returning . . . towards the sea. Woodward. 3. Great hurry; rash, tumultuous haste; impetuosity. "The precipitation of inexperience." Rambler.

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  • COLONIZATION
    Tha act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.
  • TEMERITY
    Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. Syn. -- Rashness; precipitancy; heedlessness; venturesomeness. -- Temerity, Rashness. These words are closely allied in sense, but have a
  • RASHNESS
    The quality of state of being rash. We offend . . . by rashness, which is an affirming or denying, before we have sufficiently informed ourselves. South. Syn. -- Temerity; foolhardiness; precipitancy; precipitation; hastiness; indiscretion;
  • SETTLEMENT
    A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
  • COLONY
    A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range. (more info) 1. A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent
  • RESIDUUM
    That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue. "I think so," is the whole residuum . . . after evaporating the prodigious pretensions of the
  • SUBSIDENCE; SUBSIDENCY
    The act or process of subsiding. The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions. Bp. Warburton.
  • HASTINESS
    The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.
  • PRECIPITATION
    The act or process from a solution. (more info) 1. The act of precipitating, or the state of being precipitated, or thrown headlong. In peril of precipitation From off rock Tarpeian. Shak. 2. A falling, flowing, or rushing downward with violence
  • COLONIZATIONIST
    A friend to colonization, esp. to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.
  • LOCATION
    The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc. Burrill. Bouvier. (more info) 1. The act or process of locating. 2. Situation; place; locality.
  • INDISCRETION
    1. The quality or state of being indiscreet; want of discretion; imprudence. 2. An indiscreet act; indiscreet behavior. Past indiscretion is a venial crime. Cowper.
  • COLLOCATION
    The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.
  • DISSETTLEMENT
    The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. Marvell.
  • DISLOCATION
    The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations. (more info) 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. T. Burnet.
  • CROWN COLONY
    A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.
  • TRANSLOCATION
    removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another. There happened certain translocations at the deluge. Woodward.
  • RELOCATION
    Renewal of a lease. (more info) 1. A second location.
  • PRECIPITANCE; PRECIPITANCY
    The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth. "Precipitance of judgment." I. Watts.
  • MISCOLLOCATION
    Wrong collocation. De Quincey.
  • ALLOCATION
    1. The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam. 2. An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company. The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive
  • INTERLOCATION
    A placing or coming between; interposition.
  • ELOCATION
    1. A removal from the usual place of residence. 2. Departure from the usual state; an ecstasy.
  • BILOCATION
    Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor.

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