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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin discriminosus, from discrimen (“the dangerous, decisive moment”). See discriminate (adjective).
Adjective
discriminous (comparative more discriminous, superlative most discriminous)
- (obsolete) hazardous; dangerous
1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:diſcerning the diſcriminous ſtate of Perdiccas King of Macedonia
References
“discriminous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.