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"the completion of the railroad was the precipitating cause in the extinction of waterborne commerce"adjectivebringing on suddenly or abruptly
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- constantinople the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches
- endogenous depression a state of depression for which there is no apparent precipitating cause
- fourth council of constantinople the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches