periclitate

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  1. To endanger. And why so many grains of calomel! Santa Maria! and such a dose of opium! periclitating, pardi! the whole family of ye from head to tail! Sterne, Tristram Shandy, viii. 3.

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  1. from Latin periclitatus, past participle of periclitari (later Italian periclitare = French péricliter), try, prove, test, put to the test, endanger, imperil, from periculum, periclum, trial, experiment, test, danger, peril: see peril.
 

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