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adjective

Dangerous adj.

Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. "Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous." "It is dangerous to assert a negative."

Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. "If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods."

In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. (Colloq.)

Hard to suit; difficult to please. (Obs.) "My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous."

Reserved; not affable. (Obs.) "Of his speech dangerous."

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Etymology of 'Dangerous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... was so "obscure" that King Henry III. made him professor extraordinary at Paris, and excused him from attending Mass. He was so "obscure" that the learned doctors of the Sorbonne waxed wroth with him, and made it obvious that his continued stay in Paris would be dangerous to his health. He was so "obscure" that he lived for nearly three years as the guest of the French ambassador in London. He was so "obscure" that he was known at the court of Elizabeth. He was so "obscure" that he was a friend of Sir Philip Sidney, and an ...

— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote

... convicted, would cast the undivided responsibility of reconstruction upon the Republican party, and would unquestionably secure the full admission of all the states by July next, and avoid the dangerous questions that may otherwise arise out of the southern vote in the Presidential election. It is now clear that Grant will be a candidate, and his election seems quite as clear. The action of North Carolina removed the last doubt ...

— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

... "Christian attention" had lately been the closing of the African Church,—of which, as has been stated, most of the leading revolutionists were members,—on the ground that it tended to spread the dangerous infection of the alphabet. On January 15th, 1821, the City Marshal, John J. Lafar, had notified "ministers of the gospel and others who keep night- and Sunday-schools for slaves, that the education ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 44, June, 1861 • Various

... powerful and convincing way about things of which you can have had no real experience—and therein lies your charm! You restore the lost youth of manhood by idealisation, and you compel your readers to 'idealise' with you— but 'to idealise' is rather a dangerous verb!—and its conjugation generally means trouble and disaster. Ideals—unless they are of the spiritual kind unattainable on this planet—are apt to ...

— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli

... the proof for fear that you would not believe me and would tell your wife; but now you know all. I cannot live with you any longer; from this very day I must go and find a home elsewhere." "Not so" said the other, "I will not keep such a woman with me any longer; she is dangerous; I will go home now and put her to death," and so saying he went home and killed his ...

— Folklore of the Santal Parganas • Cecil Henry Bompas

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