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murderous, a.|ˈmɜːdərəs|
[f. murder n.1 + -ous. Cf. OF. mordreux.]
1. Of persons: Guilty of murder (? obs.); capable of or bent on committing murder. Also transf. of weapons, physical agents, etc.
1535Coverdale Zeph. ii. 5 Wo vnto you yt dwel vpon the see coost, ye murthurous people. a1586Sidney Ps. v. ii, Thou, the Lord, in endless hatred hast The murd'rous man. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. iv. ii. 88 Stay murtherous villaines, will you kill your brother? 1594― Rich. III, i. ii. 94 Queene Margaret saw Thy murd'rous Faulchion smoaking in his blood. 1671Milton P.R. ii. 76 Enforc't to flye Thence into Egypt, till the Murd'rous King Were dead, who sought his life. 1689Col. Rec. Pennyslv. I. 252 He was pleased to direct that ye murtherous woman's sentence should proceed. 1719Watts Hymns & Spir. Songs ii. lxxxiv. (1751) 206 The rich Flood of purple Gore Their murth'rous Weapons dy'd. 1720J. Hughes Siege Damascus v. ii, Too well I know thee now, O murd'rous fiend! 1811Pinkerton Petral. II. 496 In different parts around the mountain, powerful murtherous vapours, of a mephitic nature, were exhaled. 1837J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (ed. 2) III. ii. 22 Saved from the murderous Egyptians in his infancy. 1884A. J. Wilson Vashti iii, Putting her fingers in her ears that she might not hear the bubbling of the murderous water, she shut her eyes and sprang into the pond.
2. Of the nature of murder; characteristic of or involving murder.
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, v. i. 185 Who can be bound by any solemne vow To do a murd'rous deede. 1660Trial Regic. 53 Suppose..they should have agreed upon such a Murtherous Act. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 416 Where beasts with man divided empire claim, And the brown Indian marks with murderous aim. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. iv. 93 The Florence of the historians..in which so many murderous encounters..were always going on.
3. Comb.
1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 62 This..murtherous-minded man. 1835James Gipsy i, ‘This is a murderous-looking spot’, said Colonel Manners.
Hence ˈmurderously adv., ˈmurderousness.
1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. xl. 79/1 Oswy King of Northumberland..was murtherously made away. a1639W. Whately Prototypes ii. xxix. (1640) 133 Take heede of these vices, Envy, murderousnesse, hard-heartednesse, cruelty. 1844L. Hunt Poems 163 Some, whom feeble love's excess, Through terror, tempts to murderousness. 1885Manch. Exam. 26 June 5/7 He was attacked and murderously assaulted by two men. |