Definitions
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- adverb music
precipitately
Etymologies
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Borrowed from Italian precipitato, masculine past participle of precipitare "to precipitate".
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Examples
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The meaning of the coda is thus made clear: a climax approached with the utmost pomp and brilliancy, and cut short by a precipitato descent in octaves, fff, ending with a reminiscence of the portentous subject of the introduction.
Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908
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The meaning of the _coda_ is thus made clear: a climax approached with the utmost pomp and brilliancy, and cut short by a _precipitato_ descent in octaves, _fff_, ending with a reminiscence of the portentous subject of the introduction.
Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908
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/05/2010 09: 58 Libia: aereo precipitato, sopravvissuto bimbo di 9 anni
ITnews 2010
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