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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 321 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEOPARDY , a See also:

term meaning See also:risk or danger of See also:death, loss or other injury. The word, in See also:Mid. Eng. juparti, jeupartie, &c., was adapted from O. Fr. ju, later jeu, and parti, even See also:game, in See also:medieval Latin jocus partitus. This term was originally used of a problem in See also:chess or of a See also:stage in any other game at which the chances of success or failure are evenly divided between the players. It was thus See also:early transformed to any See also:state of uncertainty.

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