hazardise

English

Verb

hazardise (third-person singular simple present hazardises, present participle hazardising, simple past and past participle hazardised)

1. Alternative form of hazardize
   • 1898, The New Ireland Review - Volume 9, page 280:

     Ruth was exceeding loth to allow the newly-arisen Invalid to hazardise his full Recovery by so soon leaving his Room.

   • 1914, The Engineer - Volume 118, page 536:

     It is astonishing that men and women, well knowing as they do the dangerous nature of their tasks, should hazardise not only their own lives but those of their companions by acts of omission or commission.

Noun

hazardise (plural hazardise)

1. (obsolete) A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard.
   • 1539, Letter - Earl of Southamption and Wotton to Henry VIII:

     forsommoche as it is over long, and the tyme serveth not in this letter to chowch the hoole matier, and considering that no oone pointe therof soundeth to any daungier or hazardise of your Royal Personne or Realme, but is in some like unto hym that made it , verrey knayisshe , and full of railing, howbeit such as Your Majestie can bee .nothing the worse ner your honour less regarded; therefore we have spared in fulnes and length to write thereof as now, entending at our repaire unto You to reapport the same, yche thing, furst and last, as we have herde.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     Herselfe had ronne into that hazardise.

   • 1908, John Clark, Hannibal: A Drama in Five Acts, page 34:

     The lot of hazardise, the which, with fear For dam and unmanned feebleness for sire, A cognate pair, begets its parentage.