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▪ I. † ˈsanguinary, n. Obs.
[ad. L. sanguināria, fem. of sanguinārius pertaining to blood (see sanguinary a.), used ellipt. as a name for various plants (see 1 below and sanguinaria), also, in med.Latin as the name of a jewel (see 2 below).]
1. A name applied to certain plants having styptic properties, esp. milfoil, Achillea Millefolium, and shepherd's purse, Capsella Bursa-pastoris; also to Polygonum Hydropiper (see 2nd quot. 1526). In some recent Dicts. said to be used in the sense of sanguinaria.
c1440Promp. Parv. 441/1 Sanguinarye, herbe, or mylle⁓folye.., sanguinaria, millefolium. 1526Grete Herball lxxii. (1529) E ij b, Bursa pastoris is shepeherdes purs, some call it sanguynary, bycause it stauncheth bledynge of the nose. Ibid. cccliii. T v b, Persicaria... Some call it sanguynary or blodeworte bycause it draweth blode in places that it is rubbed on.
2. A kind of blood-stone.
1465Will of Blyton (Somerset Ho.), Anulum..cum lapide infix. vocat. Sanguinarye. 1504in Wadley Bristol Wills (1886) 178 A cheyne of gold with a Sanguinarye. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest A vij b, The Sanguinarie which in Greek is called Amatites, which being well chafed and rubbed, bleedeth. 1600in Nichols Progr. Q. Eliz. (1823) III. 511 Item one sworde, with a pomell of sanguimarie [sic].
▪ II. sanguinary, a. (and n.)|ˈsængwɪnərɪ|
[ad. L. sanguinārius, f. sanguin-em, sanguis blood: see -ary. Cf. F. sanguinaire, Sp., Pg., It. sanguinario.]
1. Attended by bloodshed; characterized by slaughter; bloody. Of laws: Imposing the death-penalty freely.
1625Bacon Ess., Unity in Relig. (Arb.) 431 We may not..propagate Religion, by Warrs, or by Sanguinary Persecutions, to force Consciences. c1645Howell Lett. (1655) IV. xxix. 70 The eagerst, and most sanguinary Warrs are about Religion. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §107 For the Penal Laws (those only excepted which were Sanguinary,..) were never more rigidly executed. a1720Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. iv. 368 Here endeth this sanguinary act. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xlix. V. 137 His [Charlemagne's] laws were not less sanguinary than his arms. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. vi. i. II. 21 A sanguinary conflict took place, and the prince gained a complete victory. 1877Brockett Cross & Cr. 27 Twenty-one years out of ninety were spent in war, often of the most sanguinary character.
2. a. Bloodthirsty; delighting in carnage.
1623Cockeram ii, Blood thirsty, sanguinary. 1656Blount Glossogr., Sanguinary, cruel, thirsty, bloody, desirous of, or delighted in shedding blood. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. x. 357 They aggravated the treacherous and sanguinary ambition of Daluca. 1751Harris Hermes Wks. (1841) 170 The facetious Fuller, speaking of one Morgan, a sanguinary bishop in the reign of Queen Mary, says of him, that [etc.]. 1841James Brigand xvi, Brissac is somewhat of a sanguinary person to deal with.
†b. absol. as n. A sanguinary person. Obs.
a1550Image Ipocr. i. in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 415 He that thus dothe cary Is a mercenary, Yea, a sangunary. 1632B. Jonson Magn. Lady i. v, A Souldier..Who being by custome growne a Sanguinarie..Is more delighted i' the chase of an enemy..Then all the..happinesse of Issue could bring to him.
3. Of or pertaining to blood. rare.
1684tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict., Mater tenuis, a Membran which..clothes the Brain and Cerebellum, extreamly full of sanguinary Vessels. 1908P. T. Forsyth in Expositor Sept. 215 Sacrifice, in the ritual sense, in the sanguinary sense, has long had no real place in our religion.
¶4. slang. Used as a jocular euphemism for bloody, in reports of vulgar speech.
1890Kipling in Macm. Mag. LXI. 155/1 This is sanguinary. This is unusual sanguinary. Sort o' mad country. 1891― Lett. of Marque xv. 110 'Eres this sanguinary down mail a stickin' in the eye of the Khundwa down! 1910G. B. Shaw Lett. to Granville Barker (1956) 168 The inhabitants raise up their voices and call one another sanguinary liars. 1942Tee Emm (Air Ministry) II. 131 Lovely crate, but lousy on the approach with that sanguinary great nose sticking up in front of you. |