temerarious

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Castillo, indeed, came to the conclusion that Luis de Leon had uttered nothing against faith; but while he acquitted the prisoner of teaching 'erroneous, temerarious or scandalous doctrine', he held that Luis de Leon was much to blame for dealing with the question when and where he did.

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  1. adjective Presumptuously or recklessly daring: "I would never have been temerarious enough to make use of such a title on my own” (Brendan Gill). See Synonyms at reckless.

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  • He especially who at such a time should venture to cross the piazza of the Etmeidan would have been judged very temerarious or very ill-informed, inasmuch as three of the gates of the barracks of the Janissaries open upon this piazza; and the Janissaries, even when they are in a good humour, are not over particular as to the sort of jokes they choose to play, for their own private amusement, upon those who may chance to fall into their hands. —  Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul
  • Castillo, indeed, came to the conclusion that Luis de Leon had uttered nothing against faith; but while he acquitted the prisoner of teaching 'erroneous, temerarious or scandalous doctrine', he held that Luis de Leon was much to blame for dealing with the question when and where he did. —  Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment
  • On March 31 he appeared a second time before the Inquisitionary Court at Salamanca, and volunteered the statement that, though he still believed Montemayor's thesis to be free from heretical taint, reflection caused him to think that it was temerarious (inasmuch as it differed from the usual scholastic teaching on the subject); that its promulgation in a public assembly was regrettable; and that he was ready to make amends if he had in any way exceeded in his defence of Montemayor. —  Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment
  • Does it not suppose, that the former judgement was temerarious or negligent? —  Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784
  • They could never quite satisfy themselves whether they were speaking to the Pope or to the Devil, and when under the latter impression habitually emitted propositions which Gerbert justly stigmatised as rash, temerarious, and scandalous. —  The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales
 

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  1. From Latin temerārius, from temere, rashly.

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  1. = French téméraire = Spanish Portuguese Italian temerario, from Latin temerarius, that happens by chance, imprudent, from temere, by chance, at random, rashly: see temerity, temerous.
 

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