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treacherous, a.|ˈtrɛtʃərəs|
Forms: 4 tricherous, -ows; 4–7 trecherous, (4–5 -us, 5 -owse, treccherous, 6 trechrous, 7 tretcherous), 6– treacherous, (6 -ouse).
[a. OF. trecher-, tricheros, -us, -eus (12th c. in Godef.), f. trecheur, tricheur treacher: see -ous.]
1. Of persons, their attributes or actions: Characterized by treachery; deceiving, perfidious, false; disloyal, traitorous.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 16519 Þe tricherous Saxons—Þeyr tricherye vs euere mones. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 357 Þe men beeþ variable and vnstedefast, trecherous and gileful. 1483Cath. Angl. 392/1 Trecherus, vbi fals (A.). 1570Levins Manip. 226/34 Treacherouse, proditorius. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 317 To write, and read, Be henceforth treacherous. 1644Evelyn Diary 17 Nov., After a true tretcherous Italian guise. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 91 As fierce cruel treacherous and merciless a crew of human devils as any I have met with. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 329 A treacherous, thievish, murderous cannibal.
2. fig. Of things: Deceptive, untrustworthy, unreliable; of ground, ice, etc., unstable, insecure.
1610B. Jonson Alch. ii. iii, O, yes, but I forgot. I haue..One o' the treacherou'st memories, I doe thinke, Of all mankind. 1709Pope Ess. Crit. 492 The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) ii. v, The ice proving treacherous. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiii. III. 335 Up steep crags, and over treacherous morasses, he moved as easily [etc.]. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xv. 102 Over other [crevasses] a thin and treacherous roof was thrown. 1901T. J. Alldridge Sherbro xxvi. 288 We scrambled over a treacherous-looking bamboo bridge. |