rashly

rash +‎ -ly

rashly (comparative more rashly, superlative most rashly)

1. In a rash manner; hastily or without due consideration; with precipitation.

   Synonym: (archaic) rash

   • 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

     Alas Wat, I haue kild the kings officer in ſtriking raſhly.

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 57:

     VVhy do you ſpeake ſo ſtartingly and raſhly.

     The First Folio (1623), page 327, uses the word rash.

   • 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, 241a:

     [H]e'll say that we're contradicting what was said just now when we rashly maintain that there are falsehoods in judgements and statements.

• “rashly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “rashly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.