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rubicund, a.|ˈruːbɪkʌnd|
Also 6 rubicond, -cound, rubycund.
[a. F. rubicond (= It. rubicondo, Sp. and Pg. rubicundo), or ad. L. rubicund-us, f. rubēre to be red.]
†1. Of things: Inclined to redness; tending towards a red colour; red. Obs.
1503Hawes Examp. Virt. iii. xxxvii, Rubyes moost pure and rubicound. 1509― Past. Pleas. xxvii. (Percy Soc.) 127 Broudred with perles and rubies rubicond. 1590P. Barrough Meth. Physick iii. xxxvii. (1596) 162 The inflammation waxeth worse, it [the urine] is more rubicund. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 65 The chyle..meeting with the blood is dasht with a rubicund colour. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. xxv. 309 Of pure Minium, or native Cinnober he had two sorts; one rubicund, like the crude Ore of red silver.
2. Of the face, etc.: Reddish, flushed, highly coloured, esp. as the result of good living.
1696Phillips, Rubicund, Blood-red. Said of a jolly red countenance coloured with Wine. 1766Smollett Trav. ii. 12 A sleepy eye, a rubicund face, and carbuncled nose. 1798Helen M. Williams Tour Switzerland I. 195 It was evident from their rubicund faces and sparkling looks. 1807Douce Illustr. Shaks. I. 58 Falstaff alludes to Pistol's rubicund nose, which..carried fire in it. 1835Willis Pencillings II. li. 100, I found that my rubicund complexion was something uncommon among these dark-skinned Orientals. 1867L. M. Child Miria xxvi. 317 His face, usually rubicund.., became redder.
b. Of persons: Having a complexion of this kind; red-faced (with good living).
1827Lytton Pelham vii, The attics..were thronged with rubicund damsels. 1886Ruskin Præterita (1887) II. 60 One was a rather short, rubicund, serenely beaming person.
transf.1880M. E. Braddon Just as I am xv, A room as portly, rubicund, and pompous as its owner.
Hence ˈrubicundly adv.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 187/1 Decocte it agayne till such time as it wexeth rubicundlye colourede. 1980Daily Tel. 6 Oct. 3/1 ‘We can't go on living in the 19th century,’ says the rubicundly amiable secretary of St Stephen's [Club]. |