hazardableadj.

1618 E. Parr Plaine Expos. Epist. St. Paul to Romans ix. 181 If our Saluation did not for the certainty of it depend on God, but on our selues it were hazardable, and wee must needs despaire and runne madde in trouble, because wee are mutable.

1623 J. Winthrop Let. 26 June in Hist. New Eng. (1825) (modernized text) I. App. 342 It is so difficult and hazardable..I cannot tell how to convey that, or anything else to thee.

1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 47 We made it hazardable and doubtfull, by dallying with him.

1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iii. 42 [It] were an hazardable peece of art.

1775 Trials R. & D. Perreau's 17 To-day's business vexed me greatly, but the result is hazardable to all.

1848 H. L. Lear Tales Kirkbeck 158 There's no a man i't haill farside sall hinder me, and vara hazardable it's be to try.

1884 Bookmart 20 Feb. 205/2 To select the gem of the Murphy collection would be a hazardable undertaken [sic].

1922 Essex Rev. 31 205 Hazardable, often said of any hazardous, uncertain, or dangerous undertaking. Wright mentions its use in Suffolk and Yorkshire, but not in Essex.

1933 Sat. Rev. 21 Jan. 65/2 That's hazardable to my thinkin'... You don't wanter git mixed up in wars and sech.

1947 S. L. Bensusan These from God's Own County 162 It's a hazardable thing, buyin' horses an' carts.

1985 D. Hay Ram Tam, Middle Brew & Pinkie iii. 54 I remember hearing ‘housen’ used instead of houses [in Chelmsford, Essex, during the First World War], ‘fleet’ for shallow, ‘hazardable’ for dangerous.

1795 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Essex ii. i. 125 When..this breed is no longer proper for the purposes of milk, their hardiness and perculiar conformation enable them to retain for the purposes of grazing, all the condition and value of their first cost, as hazardable heifers.

1841 Times 30 Nov. 4/1 The necessity of making every hazardable effort to prevent it from utterly destroying his Lordship becomes palpably apparent.