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▪ I. passionate, a. (n.)|ˈpæʃənət|
[ad. med.L. passiōnātus, corresponding to F. passionné (Pr. passionado, It. passionato), pa. pple. of passionner: see passion v.]
1. Easily moved to angry passion or wrath; prone to anger, hot-tempered, irascible.
c1450tr. De Imitatione ii. iii. 43 A passionat man turniþ good into euel... A gode pesible man drawiþ all þinges to good. 1530Palsgr. 320/1 Passyonate, inclyned sone to be in a passyon. 1613Chapman Bussy D'Ambois Plays 1873 II. 142 Homer made Achilles passionate, Wrathfull, revengefull, and insatiate In his affections. 1781Cowper Friendship 64 A temper passionate and fierce May suddenly your joys disperse At one immense explosion. 1841Macaulay Ess., L. Hunt (1887) 614 Though passionate and often wrong⁓headed, he [Collier] was a singularly fair controversialist.
†b. Possessed by angry passion, enraged, angry.
a1500Colkelbie Sow 903 Susan angrit heirat, as oft woman is, Quhile passionat that all consaitis kennis, Tuk in disdane this gift. 1628Hobbes Thucyd. (1822) 39 Men..are more passionate for injustice than for violence. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. I. 278 He was violently passionate when he conceived himself wronged.
c. Of language, etc.: Marked by angry passion, angry, wrathful.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 220, I am amazed at your passionate words. 1693J. Edwards Author. O. & N. Test. 240 This passionate expletive. 1711Steele Spect. No. 107 ⁋1 To vent peevish Expressions, or give passionate or inconsistent Orders. 1879McCarthy Own Times II. xx. 93 The debates were long, fierce, and often passionate.
2. Of persons: Affected with passion or vehement emotion; dominated by intense or impassioned feeling; enthusiastic, ardently desirous; † zealously devoted, attached, or loyal (obs.).
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 51 To renne hedlynge without feare vpon all ieopardyes, as communly passionate persones doth. 1650Jer. Taylor Holy Living ii. §2 (1727) 65 That by enkindling thy desire to heavenly banquets, thou may'st be indifferent and less passionate for the earthly. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxiv. 127 Cicero, (a passionate defender of Liberty). 1671tr. Frejus' Voy. Mauritania 15, I am..Your Majesties most Humble, most Obedient, and Passionate Servant. 1805Southey Madoc in W. x. ii, He..swept with passionate hand the ringing harp. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. III. 573 Her husband's house and garden were daily thronged with her passionate admirers. 1879Froude Cæsar xiv. 215 The army was now passionate for an engagement.
b. Of language, etc.: Imbued with passion, marked or characterized by strong emotion; expressive of strong emotion, impassioned.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 22 Their passionate describing of passions. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iv. iii. §42 To these he made a passionate speech, to exhort them to unite. 1771Junius Lett. lviii. 303 Forgive this passionate language. 1845Stoddart in Encycl. Metrop. (1847) I. 174/1 The interjection rises from a scarcely articulate sound to a passionate, and almost to an enunciative sentence.
c. Of an emotion: Vehement.
1567Drant Horace To Rdr., The one thicke powdered wyth manly passionat pangs, the other watered wyth wominishe teares. 1589Greene Menaphon Ded. (Arb.) 3 By such passionate sorowes. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 243 They bear a passionate affection to their Princes. 1813M. Edgeworth Patron. vi, His declaration of passionate attachment to Caroline. 1818Southey Ode Death Q. Charlotte iii, With a passionate sorrow we bewail'd Youth on the untimely bier.
3. Subject to passion; swayed by the passions or emotions; easily moved to strong feeling; impressible, susceptible; of changeful mood.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xii. (Arb.) 44 To make him [God] ambitious of honour,..angrie, vindicatiue,..indigent of mans worships: finally so passionate as in effect he shold be altogether Anthropopathis. a1619Fletcher Wit without Money ii. iv, Thou art passionate; Hast thou been brought up with girls? c1622Ford, etc. Witch Edmonton ii. ii, You..have the power To make me passionate as an April day; Now smile, then weep; now pale, then crimson red. 1685South Serm. (1697) I. 466 God will not..admit of the Passionate man's Apology, That he has so long given his Unruly Passions their Head, that he cannot now Govern or Controul them. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. iii. 78 Those hot and sudden friendships which men of passionate temper rush into.
†4. spec. Affected with the passion of love, dominated or swayed by the ‘tender passion’. Obs.
1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 32 Seeing by the shepheards passionate lookes, that the swain was halfe in loue. 1632Shirley Changes i. ii, My wife is passionate and affects this Knight. 1704Steele Lying Lover i. (1747) 18 Judge..what the condition of a passionate Man must be, that can approach the hand only of her he dies for.
†5. Moved with sorrow; grieved, sad, sorrowful.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 118 These things..permit you not, for such losse of riches, possessions, children or friends to become passionate. 1595Shakes. John ii. i. 544 She is sad and passionate at your highness Tent. 1613Chapman Bussy D'Ambois Plays 1873 II. 157 Be not so passionate; rise, cease your tears. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 71 Ecbar (who loved him dearly) becomes so passionate, that for..some time [he] refused to be comforted.
b. Inclined to pity, compassionate. Now dial.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. iv. 121, I hope this passionate humor of mine, will change, It was wont to hold me but while one tels twenty. 1658W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. verse 16. iii. (1679) 190/2 Them that have had the longest and passionatest treaty of mercy. 1903Eng. Dial. Dict., (Dorsetshire) Master's very good to his workpeople, he's so pash'nate.
†c. That moves to compassion, pitiful. Obs.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1590) 294 b, Melting with compassion at so passionate a sight. 1595Spenser Col. Clout 427 In tragick plaints and passionate mischance.
B. n. (elliptical use.) One who is influenced by passion, † esp. one who is in love (obs.).
1651tr. De-las-Coveras' Don Fenise 78 It came into my fancie to give a serenade to my wife, counterfeiting the amorous passionate. 1751Richardson Corr. (1804) III. 182 When the passionates (forgive the word) break fences, leap from windows, climb walls, swim rivers. 1819J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1857) I. 234, I could..have joined the passionates in clapping.
▪ II. † ˈpassionate, v. Obs.
[f. F. passionner = It. passionare, f. passion passion n.: see -ate3 6.]
1. trans. To excite or imbue with passion, or with a particular passion, as love, fear, wrath, etc.
1566Painter Pal. Pleas. I. 107 b, This traitour..passionated not with Loue, but rather with rage and fury. 1612Capt. Smith Proc. Virginia 88 It shall not so much passionate me, but I will doe my best for my worst maligner. 1652Benlowes Theoph., Pestill for Author, Beaumont and Fletcher coyn'd a golden Way T'expresse, suspend, and passionate a play. 1658tr. Bergerac's Satyr. Char. xi. 38 Thaile passionate an elegie by interrupted sobbs.
2. To express or perform with passion.
1567Painter Pal. Pleas. II. 330 Nowe leaue we this amorous Hermite, to passionate & plaine his misfortune. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. iii. ii. 6 Thy Neece and I..want our hands And cannot passionate our tenfold griefe, With foulded Armes. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 246 Play-houses, where the parts of women are acted by women, and too naturally passionated.
3. To desire passionately.
1652Loveday tr. Calprenede's Cassandra i. 2 The Knight..whom powerfull Reasons obliged to passionate the others Ruin.
4. To compassionate.
1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (1654) II. 48, I finde more contentment in your passionating me.
Hence ˈpassionating vbl. n. (in quot. exciting of angry passions).
1598Barret Theor. Warres ii. i. 28 If there be any banding, secting or passionating among them, he is to appease and compound the same. |