Definition of "jeopardous" []

• Marked by jeopardy; dangerous or perilous (adjective)

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• "Constant experience with jeopardous tasks has eliminated the human fear of danger, and even death, in its most tragic shapes, by long association has lost its terrors."
• "For all the day before they had well advised the place and said among themselves: 'If the Englishmen come on us suddenly, then we will do thus and thus, for it is a jeopardous thing in the night if men of war enter into our lodgings."
• "The forefronts or frontiers of the two corners, what with fords and shelves, and what with rocks be very jeopardous and dangerous."