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dangerous, a.|ˈdeɪndʒərəs|
Also 3, 6 dangerus, (3 dauncherous), 4–6 daungerous, (5 dawngerowse, 5–6 daungerouse.
[a. AF. dangerous = OF. dangeros, -eus, mod.F. dangereux, f. danger: see -ous.]
†1. Difficult or awkward to deal with; haughty, arrogant; rigorous, hard, severe: the opposite of affable. Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 108 Heo is a grucchild, & ful itowen, dangerus, & erueð for te paien. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 280/83 Þe pope makede him dauncherous and nolde ensenti þer-to. c1386Chaucer Prol. 517 He was to synful man nought despitous Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne. c1400Rom. Rose 591 And she to me was nought unmeke, Ne of hir answer daungerous. Ibid. 1483 So fiers & daungerous was he, That he nolde graunte hir askyng.
†b. Difficult to please; particular, ticklish; fastidious, nice, dainty, delicate. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Melib. Prol. 21, I wol yow telle a litel thing in prose, That oughte like yow..Or elles certes ye be to daungerous. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. cxx. (1869) 63 Of þi mete and of þi drink be þou neuere more daungerous. What þou fyndest take it gladliche. 1568E. Tilney Disc. Mariage C ij b, Daungerous, and circumspect in matters touching his honesty. a1568R. Ascham Scholem. i. (Arb.) 65 Great shippes require costlie tackling, and also afterward dangerous gouernment. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 31 The Oate is not daungerous in the choyse of his grounde, but groweth lyke a good fellowe in every place.
†c. Reluctant to give, accede or comply; chary of. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Wife's Prol. 514 For that he Was of his loue daungerous to me. 14..Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 155 If she be dawngerouse, I will hyr pray. 1494Fabyan Chron. clv. 144 And requyryd hym of his comforte and ayde, wherof he was not daungerous. 1556Robinson tr. More's Utopia (Arb.) 166 As myne I am nothinge daungerous to imparte, So better to receaue I am readie. 1598W. Phillips Linschoten (1864) 200 They are so dangerous of eating and drinking with other men which are not their Countrimen.
2. Fraught with danger or risk; causing or occasioning danger; perilous, hazardous, risky, unsafe. (The current sense.)
1490Caxton Eneydos xxi. 78 Atte this tyme whiche is so daungerouse. 1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 19 Some houses be..redy to fal downe, and therfore dangerus to passe by. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 40 b, Delay herein is daungerous. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 148 The daungeroust enemie Spaine had in the world. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. iv. Wks. (1847) 516 They who pray against us..are our dangerousest Enemies. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xii His wife..seeing her husband in these dangerous circumstances, uttered a dreadful scream. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Milton Wks. II. 142 To be of no church is dangerous. 1859Helps Friends in C. Ser. ii. I. ii. 131 In most of the European nations there are dangerous classes, dangerous, because uncared for and uneducated. 1893Sir J. W. Chitty in Law Times' Rep. LXVIII. 430/1 A most dangerous doctrine.
†3. Ready to run into or meet danger; venturesome. Obs. rare.
1611Tourneur Ath. Trag. iv. ii, And I doubt his life, His spirit is so boldly dangerous. 1642[see dangerously 3].
4. In danger, as from illness; dangerously ill. Now dial. and U.S. colloq.
a1616Beaum. & Fl. Bonduca iv. iii, Reg. Sure His mind is dangerous. Drus. The good gods cure it! 1619Fletcher M. Thomas ii. i, Which will as well restore To health again the affected body..As leave it dangerous. 1620Melton Astrolog. 14 A Spirit that will fright any disease from the most dangerous and ouer-spent Patient. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Dangerous, endangered. ‘Mr. Smith is sadly-badly; quite dangerous.’ 1864Barnes Dorset Gloss., Dangerous in danger. 1884Bread-winners (U.S.) 244 He's dangerous; they don't think he'll live.
†5. Hurtful, injurious. Obs. (Cf. danger n. 6.)
1548Hall Chron. 17 b, The encounter was sharpe, the fight was dangerous. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 400 Two vices, very daungerous and noysome among men.
†6. as adv. Dangerously. Obs. rare.
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, i. i. 11 Either slaine or wounded dangerous. |