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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1570-1600
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Precipitat, -ate, v. [e.m.E. -ate (1528), L. precipitāre: see Precipitat p.p.] tr. (absol.) and reflex. To throw down headlong, hurl down. — 1570 Bann. Memor. 58.
To escaip his furie ye did precipitate your self in ane deip river 1600 Hamilton Facile Tr. 34.
Certaine peruersit doctrines, quhilks attrappis in the snairis of Sathan, and precipitats in the deip pit of hell
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