hazardable
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
hazardable (comparative more hazardable, superlative most hazardable)
- Liable to chance or hazard; exposed to dangers; risky or uncertain.
- 1658, Thomas Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC:
- How to keep the corpse seven days from corruption by anointing and washing, without exenteration, were an hazardable piece of art, in our choicest practice
- Capable of being hazarded or risked.
References edit
- “hazardable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.