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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In Scots law, a risk.

Wiktionary

  1. n. law accident or casus, as distinguished from dolus and culpa, and hence relieving one from the duty of performing an obligation

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Rom. & O.Eng. Law) Danger; risk.
  2. n. In a narrower, judicial sense: Accident or casus, as distinguished from dolus and culpa, and hence relieving one from the duty of performing an obligation.

Etymologies

  1. Latin (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Fuerunt alii similis amentiae, cives Romani — — Multi enim omnis aetatis, omnis ordinis, utriusque sexus, etiam vocuntur in periculum et vocabuntur.] 189 Tertullian ad Scapulum.”

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  • “Indeed Ubi periculum took its cue from the events in Viterbo to prescribe a particularly tough dietary regimen for the conclave.”

    Simon & Schuster: Delizia!

  • “After his election Gregory X set out some hard-line regulations for future elections: his 1274 constitution Ubi periculum contains the first use of the word conclave—from the Latin cum clavis, “with a key.””

    Simon & Schuster: Delizia!

  • “Ubi periculum placed heavy restrictions upon the cardinals locked up to choose a supreme pontiff.”

    Simon & Schuster: Delizia!

  • “Saturnalian or Dionysian feasts, when as he said, nullum libertati periculum est, servants in old Rome had liberty to say and do what them list.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “Haud scio an majus discrimen ab his qui blandiuntur, an ab his qui territant; ingens utrinque periculum: alii ad securitatem ducunt, alii afflictionum magnitudine mentem absorbent, et in desperationem trahunt.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “Usitatissimus morbus cum sit, utile est hujus visceris accidentia considerare, nec leve periculum hujus causas morbi ignorantibus.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “Ab arte ideo rejiciendum, ob periculum suffocationis.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “Quoties sit, ut Principes novitium aulicum divitiis et dignitatibus pene obruant, et multorum annorum ministrum, qui non semel pro hero periculum subiit, ne teruntio donent, &c.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “Ubique periculum, ubique dolor, ubique naufragium, in hoc ambitu quocunque me vertam.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

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