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rampageous, a.|ræmˈpeɪdʒəs|
Also -ious.
[f. rampage n. + -ous.]
1. Violent; unruly; boisterous.
1822Galt Provost xv. 115 The primitive ages of a rampageous antiquity. 1840F. Trollope Widow Married xxiii, She must be careful not to be too frolicsome and rampageous. 1888Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere i. v, A rampagious class of hundreds of Scotch lads.
2. transf. Glaring, outrageous.
1889Harper's Mag. LXXIX. 200 The ornamentation is for the most part rampageous rocaille style.
Hence ramˈpageously adv.; ramˈpageousness.
1840Lady C. Bury Hist. of Flirt xxiii, He swears so rampageously, it upsets me. 1883St. James's Gaz. 19 May 5 They..have good cause for rampageousness. |