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▪ I. rampage, n.|ræmˈpeɪdʒ, ˈræm-|
[f. the vb.]
A state of excitement or violent passion; the act of behaving or rushing about in a reckless or riotous fashion; esp. in phr. on the rampage and in U.S. colloq. phr. to ride (a) rampage. Also fig.
1861Dickens Gt. Expect. ii, She's been on the Ram-page this last spell, about five minutes. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xi. 147 She leaves his charming society to go off on a wild rampage through the country. 1891Spectator 10 Oct. 487 The Irish Members..think a rampage will guarantee their seats. 1906‘Mark Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Aug. 335 The raven..sets on her shoulder often when she rides her breakneck rampages. 1927H. Crane Let. 19 Dec. (1965) 313 Her drunken and exclamatory rampage through Edificios Blancos [sc. H. Crane's White Buildings]. 1955Times 29 Aug. 10/5 Mr. Jack Warner, representing Scotland Yard, is indeed a comfort to have at hand when Things are on the rampage. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 2 Apr. (T.V. Mag.) 57/1 A gang on a rampage through Matt Dillon's territory.
▪ II. rampage, v.|ræmˈpeɪdʒ|
Also 9 Sc. -auge.
[Orig. Sc., of obscure formation, but perh. based on ramp v.1 The stressing ˈrampage also occurs.]
1. intr. To behave violently or furiously; to storm, rage wildly.
1715Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. ii. xvii, His wife did reel, And rampage in her choler. c1720― Marriage of Earl Wemyss xii, Were Jove rampaging in the air. a1784Ross Helenore (1789) 64 He rampaged red wood, And lap and danc'd, and was in unco mood. 1824Scott Redgauntlet let. xi, He came down here, rampauging like a lion. 1898J. Arch Story of Life ix. 232 He rampaged like a lunatic, and fairly lost his head.
2. To go about in an excited, furious, or violent manner; to rush wildly hither and thither.
1808J. Mayne Siller Gun iv. 137 Friends feghting friends, rampaged about. 1831Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 360 Our sailors would have been ‘rampaging’ over the world. 1861Dickens Gt. Expect. ii, She made a grab at Tickler, and she Ram-paged out.
transf.1892Huxley in Life (1900) II. xx. 331, I hear you have influenza rampaging about the Camp.
3. trans. To rampage about or over (a place).
1905E. M. Albanesi Brown Eyes of Mary i. 7 Where is the beast now? Is she rampaging the premises?
Hence ramˈpaging vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. xi, There was a set of rampauging chields in the country then that they called rebels. 1876F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow II. iv. 63 Religion is one thing and rampaging is another. |