a. Sc. Obs. Also 6 temerar, -air. [a. F. temeraire (1461 in Godef., Compl.), ad. L. temerārius: cf. next and TEMERARY.] = next, 1.
1549. Compl. Scot. (1873), 6. I … hes tane ane temerare consait to present to ȝour nobil grace and tracteit of the fyrst laubir of my pen. Ibid., xvii. 153. Kyng cresus vas temerair in his question.
1581. Sat. Poems Reform., xliv. 333. Of haly Kirk ȝour temerar dispysing.
