Definition of "rashly"

rashly

adverb
comparative more rashly, superlative most rashly
1. In a rash manner; hastily or without due consideration; with precipitation.
  Quotations
  Alas Wat, I haue kild the kings officer in ſtriking raſhly.
  1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I
  VVhy do you ſpeake ſo ſtartingly and raſhly.The First Folio (1623), page 327, uses the word rash.
  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, [Act III, scene iv], page 57
  [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.
  2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, 241a