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‖ furioso, a., (quasi-adv.), and n.|furioso|
[It.:—L. furiōsus: see furious a.]
A. adj. (Music.) See quot. 1825. Also quasi-adv.
1823Crabb Technol. Dict., Furioso (Mus.) or con furia, Italian, signifying furiously or with vehemence. 1825Danneley Encycl. Mus., Furioso denotes a quick movement, but principally that species of movement which requires a wildness of character in the execution.
B. n. A furious person. (Also furiosa fem.)
Presumably suggested by the title of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.
a1670Hacket Abp. Williams ii. §202 (1693) 218 A violent Man, and a Furioso. 1710Age of Wonders vi. in Wilkins Pol. Ball. (1860) II. 69 The furiosas of the Church Come foremost like the wind. 1726De Foe Hist. Devil ii. viii. (1840) 290 He gave Oliver the protectorship, but would not let him call himself king, which stuck so close to that furioso, that the mortification spread into his soul. 1784Lett. to Honoria & Marianne I. 74, I have heard one of these pitiful furioso's raving to a most amiable woman. |