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† ˈjeopardous, a. Obs. Forms: see jeopardy; also 5 jowpertous. [f. jeopard-y + -ous: cf. jeopardious.] 1. Fraught with risk or danger; hazardous, risky, perilous, dangerous.
1451Paston Lett. I. 212 It had be right jowpertous and ferefull. 1474Sir J. Paston in P. Lett. III. 115 It had been jopertous to leve moche plate wyth hyr. 1489Act 4 Hen. VII, c. 3 §1 To the Iubardouse abydyng of his moost noble persone. 1502Hen. VII in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. I. 54 Shippes sailyng into so jeoperdous and ferre parties. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde ii. iii, This is a very ieopardous labour. 1584Cogan Haven Health clxxx. (1636) 165 Lamprayes..bee..lesse jeopardous [than eels]. a1661Fuller Worthies, Cornwall (1662) 202 This his Goodly, Valiant, and Jeopardous enterprise (as it is termed). 2. Addicted to risks; venturesome, daring.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxx. 261 Guy,..as a lustye and iuperdous Knyght, put hymselfe in aduenture dyuerse wayes and tymes. 1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 121, I will not bee so vnweaponed ieopardous, to ouerthrow both thy cause and my credite at once. Hence † ˈjeopardously adv.; † ˈjeopardousness.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 554 The erle..fledde, and so lepynge ieopardously into the howse of an olde woman, escapyd. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccclviii. 581 He..aduentured hymselfe oftentymes ryght ieoperdously. 1552Huloet, Ieopardouslye, periculose. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Jeopardousness, Hazardousness. |