periclitation

English

Etymology

From Latin periclitatio. Compare French périclitation.

Noun

periclitation (countable and uncountable, plural periclitations)

  1. (obsolete) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Trial; experiment.
  2. (obsolete) The state of being in peril.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “periclitation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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