Definition of "perilled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of peril. (verb)

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• "Ravenswood family (whose more ancient dignity threw discredit on the newly acquired grandeur of her husband) to such a degree that she would have perilled the interest of her own house to have the prospect of altogether crushing that of her enemy."
• "Some one will be heard to ask whether a state of society can be final in which the interests of thousands are perilled on the life or character of a single person."
• "Other similar ejaculations of love and joy she uttered; and if I HAD perilled life in her service, if I DID believe that hope of escape there was none, so exquisite was the moment of our meeting, that I forgot all else in this overwhelming joy!"