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ˈvirid, a. poet. and rhet. Also 7 viride. [ad. L. virid-is green, blooming, vigorous.] Green, verdant.
1600Fairfax Tasso xii. xciv, Her tombe was not of viride Spartane greet, Nor yet by cunning hand of Scopas wrought. 1658H. Crompton Pierides 82 The virid Marjoram Her sparkling beauty did but see. 1794T. Taylor Pausanias' Descr. Greece I. 61 There is, also, a temple of Earth the nurse of youths, and of virid Ceres. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr. x. (1873) 97 The pillars..blooming in virid antiquity, like two massy evergreens. 1866J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Met. 341 And as he spoke the virid bough upon Wound as he was, the dragon turned to stone. |