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furious, a.|ˈfjʊərɪəs|
Also 4 furyus, 5–6 Sc. -ius, 5 Sc. furiouss, -eous, 5–6 furyous, 6 furiouse.
[a. OF. furieus (mod.F. furieux), ad. L. furiōsus, f. furia fury.]
1. a. Of a person, an animal, etc.: Full of fury or fierce passion; mad with anger, zeal, or the like; raging, frantic. Also of actions, attributes, utterances: Proceeding from or exhibiting fury; fierce, raging, destructively or menacingly violent.
c1374Chaucer Compl. Mars 143 Now wol I speke of Mars, furious and wood. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems 157 Whan he [the lioun] is moost furious in his myhte, Ther comyth a quarteyn. 1535Coverdale Ps. vii. 6 Lift vp thyself ouer the furious indignacion of myne enemies. 1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. xxxvi. 87 a, Heerevppon, they began in a furious outrage, running out of their dores like madde men. 1611Bible Ezek. v. 15 When I shall execute iudgments in thee in anger and in furie, and in furious rebukes. 1641in Hearne Collect. 15 Aug. (1706) (O.H.S.) I. 285 Y⊇ furiousest Presbyterians. 1645Milton Tetrach. To Parlt., Wks. (1847) 175/2 The furious incitements which have been us'd. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 419 The furious Mare, Barr'd from the Male, is frantick with Despair. 1752Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 62 Parties of religion are more furious. a1853Robertson Lect. ii. (1858) 58 Furious against every one whose words make them tremble at their own insecurity. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. i. iii. (1866) 112 The King, already enraged, was furious at the presentation of this petition. 1863F. A. Kemble Resid. Georgia 14, I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration.
b. transf. Of the elements: Moving with or as if moved by fury, violent, raging.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. vii. 80 If the water be too furious and deepe. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 259 Feare no more..the furious Winters rages. 1700S. L. tr. Fryke's Voy. E. Ind. 126 It got a head after so furious a manner, that it set fire on the Ship itself. 1774Pennant Tour Scotl. in 1772, 119 From the top is a view of the furious Stream. 1709Cowper Castaway iv, The furious blast. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxiv. (1856) 196 Blowing a furious gale.
†c. Of pains, diseases, evil influences: Raging, cruel. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 373 In langour and in torment furyus. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas i. viii. (1544) 14 Folke were there blent with furious darkenes. c1470Henry Wallace ii. 211 In fureous payne. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. li. 270 Furious agues. 1627Abp. Abbot Narr. in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 434 Some furious infirmities of Body.
d. fast and furious: (of mirth) eager, uproarious, noisy. Also advb., rapidly, uproariously, noisily.
1790[see fun n.2]. 1820Scott Ivanhoe xviii, Fast and furious grew the mirth of the parties. 1851H. Melville Moby Dick II. xlii. 284 He swam so fast and furious. 1859A. Robertson Let. 10 Feb. in R. Fulford Dearest Child (1964) 162 The dancing was resumed, and..they were going on at it ‘fast and furious’. 1899Tit-Bits 29 Apr. 103/1 Pictures came fast and furious. 1931Week-end Rev. 21 Nov. 654/2 The fun is fast and furious.
2. hyperbolically (after Fr. use): Excessive, extravagant. rare.
1668Dryden Evening's Love iii. i, What a furious indigence of ribbons is here upon my head! Ibid. v. i, I will do my best to disingage my Heart from this furious Tender which I have for him. 1822–56De Quincey Confess. (1862) 7 Without a suspicion of his own furious romancing.
3. Mad, insane. Obs. exc. in Scots Law.
1475Sc. Acts Jas. III (1814) II. 112 The Inquest fyndis þat he was ouder fule or furiouss. 1564Child Marriages, etc. (1897) 135 She, beinge seruaunt with the testatrix, did neuer knowe that euer she was Lunatike or furiouse. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxiv. §4 Neither furious persons nor children may receive any ciuill stipulation. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Stat. Robt. I, 33 Fvrious men sould be taken, and keiped be their friends. 1642View Print. Book int. Observat. 10 Except the King be Captive, furious, or in his infancy. 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 66 Idiots..and furious persons cannot marry.
†4. Foolish, absurd. Obs.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 253 b, In theyr moost furyous & false opinyon they iudged hym a dissembler and an ypocryte. 1608–11Hall Medit. & Vows i. §62, I have ever found, that to strive with my superiour is furious, with my equall doubtfull.
5. Comb., as furious-curious, furious-faced adjs.; furious-wise adv.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iv, Handie-Craftes 630 Dauncing, foaming, rowling furious-wise. 1614― Little Bartas 407 The furious-curious Spell Of those Black-Artists. 1636Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 174 To go through a furious faced death to life eternal! |