单词 | meo periculo |
释义 | meo periculoadv. Now rare. At my own risk. ΚΠ 1752 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 16 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) V. 1976 Let me then recommend this principle of vanity to you; act upon it meo periculo. a1763 J. Byrom Misc. Poems (1773) I. 326 Meo periculo, Sirs, alter this: If Taste be in you, read ‘amabilis’. 1773 S. Johnson Let. 22 May (1992) II. 33 Dr Lawrence..says I have no fever and may let bark [sc. as a treatment] alone..but it is meo periculo. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. ix. 200 So I will accept your bail—meo periculo—what say you to that law phrase again? 1822 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater ii. 93 Assure yourself, meo periculo, that no quantity of opium ever did, or could intoxicate. 1876 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 5 229 I venture, meo periculo, on the following conjectures. 1931 Mind 40 168 I venture to assert—meo periculo—that this so-called example of the defect of fact involves a mere equivocation. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1752 |
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