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† voˈraginous, a. Obs.
[ad. L. vorāginōs-us, f. vorāgin-, vorāgo vorago. Cf. obs. F. voragineux, It., Sp., Pg. voraginoso.]
1. Of or belonging to an abyss or whirlpool; resembling a chasm or gulf.
1624T. Scott Belg. Souldier 8 More dangerous then the gaping and voraginous caue, wherein Curtius leapt. 1654Cokaine Dianea iii. 233 A voraginous place, about the banks of which those men appeare that have perished by a violent death. 1675E. Wilson Spadacr. Dunelm. 23 The bottom of the Sea..is perforated with sundry voraginous inlets and patent mouths. 1747Mallet Amyntor & Theod. i. 219 His secret seat,..deep amidst A cavern's jaws voraginous and vast.
b. transf. and fig.
1624Gag for Pope 15 The Countrey villages know not what a Sermon meaneth, onely Mass and Mattens, with some voraginous deliuery of wonders. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. ii. xlviii, For course of time voraginous With rapid force is violently just.
2. Having the receptive or swallowing power of a gulf or abyss; devouring, voracious.
1653A. Wilson Jas. I, 165 This Voraginous appetite gaped after the possession of the Countrie. 1657Reeve God's Plea 85 How it doth grieve me..that we think to get our admission under God with voraginous paunches, and soaked gullets. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 376 No Nation in the World be more idle and voraginous than they. 1691in C. R. Wilson Old Fort William (1906) I. 11 Provisions..being extremely deer, made so by the Voraginous great Armyes near us.
Hence † voˈraginousness. Obs.—1
1654R. Codrington tr. Iustine iv. 74 Those Waves did bark, which the voraginousness of the devouring Sea did commit and clash together. |