| 释义 |
vulturous, a.|ˈvʌltjʊərəs|
Also 7 vulterous.
[f. vulture n. + -ous.]
1. Resembling that of a vulture; ravenous.
1623Webster Duchess Malfi ii. ii, There's no question but her techiness and most vulturous eating of the apricocks are apparent signs of breeding. 1647Hammond Christ. Oblig. (1649) 15 And when..he was shut up alone in the bladder, his vulturous stomack lets loose upon himself, and within few minuits more, one half of him devoures the other. 1672Penn Spir. Truth Vind. 14 [It] is invisible to his vulterous Eye, who so disdainfully writes against it. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iv, With such a vulturous hunger for self-indulgence. 1870Talmage Crumbs Swept Up (1871) 278 They watch about the door for new-comers,..invite him to drink,..and plunge their vulturous beaks into the vitals of his soul.
2. fig. Resembling a vulture in appearance or character.
1843Carlyle Past & Pr. iv. i, The battle, with various weapons, of vulturous Quack and Tyrant against vulturous Tyrant and Quack. 1864― Fredk. Gt. xvi. i. IV. 243 The Owleries and the vulturous Law-Pedantries. 1885Tennyson Dead Prophet vii, Then glided a vulturous Beldam forth, That on dumb death had thriven. |