a. Obs. [f. L. alacri-s brisk, lively + -OUS. Cf. hilari-ous.] Brisk, lively, active.
1602. Warner, Albion’s Eng., Epit. (1612), 376. His alacrious Intertainments, and vpright Gouernment.
1640. Jackson, Wks., I. Pref. Alacrious endeavours to redeem time.
a. 1660. Hammond, Wks., IV. 550 (R.). ’Twere well if we were a little more alacrious.
[Not in Johnson, but in mod. Dicts.]
