2. Verb. (third-person singular of dare) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dares
1. dare [v] - See also: dare
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dares
Literary usage of Dares
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History: Fiction of Science? by Anatoly Fomenko (2005)
"It goes without saying that historians treat the texts of dares and Dictis
sceptically on even with outright hostility. They tell us the following, ..."
2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Upon a house-top, so from each huge hand The champion's strokes on dizzy dares fall.
Then Sire ^Eneas willed to make a stay To so much rage, ..."
3. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1892)
"The history of the destruction of Troy by the pretended Phrygian dares belongs,
... As with Dictys (§ 423) so with dares it is doubtful whether the extant ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"And dares he now 430 Entreat me ? Nay, he hath beguiled me once ; I read him
through and through ; 'tis waste of breath. " Rather, Odysseus, let him take ..."
5. The Indebtedness of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde to Guido Delle Colonne's by George Livingstone Hamilton (1903)
"... Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Dictys, and dares, such as he found it in his original,1
depending, doubtless, upon the list in Chaucer's Hous of Fame, ..."
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