Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To endanger.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To endanger.

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  • verb obsolete To endanger.

Etymologies

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From the past participle stem of Latin periclitari, from periculum ‘experiment, risk’. Compare peril.

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