a. Obs. [f. JEOPARDY + -OUS.] Fraught with danger or risk; = JEOPARDOUS 1.
1502. Atkynson, trans. De Imitatione, I. xxiii. 172. It is ferefull to dy, but parauenture it is more ieoperdyous to lyue lenger.
1526. Tindale, Acts xxvii. 9. When moche tyme was spent and saylynge was nowe ieoperdeous [1535 Coverd. ioperdous].
1540. Hyrde, trans. Vives’ Instr. Chr. Wom. (1592), E vij b. He was neuer infected with any sore or ieoperdious sickenes.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 211 b. It was both ieopardeous for ye kyng & for his whole realme.
