discriminous
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin discriminosus, from discrimen (“the dangerous, decisive moment”). See discriminate (adjective).
Adjective
editdiscriminous (comparative more discriminous, superlative most discriminous)
- (obsolete) hazardous; dangerous
- 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
- diſcerning the diſcriminous ſtate of Perdiccas King of Macedonia
References
edit“discriminous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.