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temeˈrariously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. With temerity; rashly.
1535Joye Apol. Tindale (Arb.) 24 Thus temerariously and abominably to write. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 310 They account them happiest, who out of a frantick zeale, temerariously throw their naked bodies in the way. a1745Swift Disc. Antiq. Eng. Tongue ad fin., I have ventured (perhaps too temerariously) to contribute my mite to the learned world. 1863Lytton Caxtoniana I. 50 To be..corrected in any subsequent edition of the work in which such descriptions had been temerariously adventured.
†2. At random; fortuitously. Obs.
1669Address yng. Gentry Eng. 86 As temerariously and blindly they [Gamesters] cast round about them these fire⁓brands. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §7. 198 The Atheists make the Universe..to be devoid of Counsel, and therefore..to be carried on Temerariously and Fortuitously. |