单词 | discriminous |
释义 | discriminousadj. Now rare (archaic in later use). Dangerous, hazardous; uncertain. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adjective] > full of risk adventurousa1375 jeopardous1451 jeopardious?1504 hazardous1549 venturous1570 hazardly1575 chanceful1591 unsafe1597 venturable1597 hazard1601 desperatea1616 hazardable1618 hazardful1626 discriminous1658 venturesome1661 precarious1727 riskful1793 risky1813 1658 H. W. tr. E. de Refuge Accomplish'd Courtier ix. 24 Suddain undertakings are discriminous, and full of difficulties [Fr. les plus courts, estans ordinairement accompagnez de beaucoup de difficultez, & d'inconueniens]. 1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xxx. 176 Any kind of spitting of blood imports a very discriminous state. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Discriminous, full of Jeopardy. 1846 C. H. C. It blows, it Snows 22 A few days ago I was kindly invited..to buckle on my armour and take chance of the pleasures and discriminous adventures that might be derived from a shooting expedition. 1903 A. E. Barr Black Shilling xiii. 318 He..called it ‘a disgraceful, scandalous, imbecile, discriminous, dishonourable proceeding’. DerivativesΚΠ 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. (ed. 2) Discriminousness, full of jeopardy or hazard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1658 |
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