Definition of "perillous" [perillous]

• Archaic form of perilous. (adjective)

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• "Lombardes: which when Mistresse Doctor and her Chamber-maide heard, they were confounded with most strange admiration, and scarsely credited what they themselves had done the night before, but rather imagined all matters past, to be no more than meerely a dreame, concerning Ruggieroes dying in the house, and their putting him into the Chest, so that by no likely or possible meanes, he could be the man in this perillous extreamitie."
• "Wherein is declared, the sundry travels and perillous accidents, occasioned by those two powerfull commanders, love and fortune, the insulting tyrants over humane life."
• "But having an excellent ingenious wit, quicke, and apprehensive in perillous occasions, she intended now to make a triall of overreaching the lascivious Duke in his wanton purpose, and yet to be assured of her sisters life, without any blemish to her reputation."