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courageous, a.|kəˈreɪdʒəs|
Forms: 3–5 corageus, coraious(e, (i = j), 4 koraious, curaiows, coragous, corrageous, 4–6 corageous(e, 5–6 cur-, curragious, coragiouse, coragyous, 5–7 coragious, 6 couragiouse, 6–8 couragious, 5– courageous.
[a. AF. corageous, OF. corajus, -os, corageus, later courageux, f. corage, courage courage: see -ous. Cf. It. coraggioso.]
1. Having courage, full of courage; brave, fearless, valiant.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 359 Harald, a man wyþ grete herte corageus ynou. c1350Will. Palerne 3318 So coraious a contenaunce þat kud kniȝt hadde. c1380Sir Ferumb. 438 Hym dredeþ noþyng of Olyuer..For he was strong & coraious. c1440Generydes 2093 A myghti prince in armys corageus. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. clxiv. 203 The prince of Wales..was coragious, and cruell as a lyon. 1611Bible Josh. i. 7 Bee thou strong, and very courageous. 1632Lithgow Trav. iv. 145 He was..of a sanguinicall complexion, and a couragious stomache. 1749Smollett Regicide v. v, Couragious thane, Receive this dagger. 1885F. Temple Relat. Relig. & Sc. i. 4 Among religious men we ought to expect to find..the most courageous of men of science.
†2. Desirous, eager (to do something). Obs.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 479/607 To witen hire stat euerechdel he was wel coraious. c1400Rom. Rose 4416 Whanne..traitours..To noyen me be so coragious. a1400–50Alexander 1892 Made vs corageous and kene ȝoure clere gold to wyn.
†3. Full of virile force; lively, lusty, vigorous.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. 511 His conpleccion is so corageous that he may nat forbere. 1548Hall Chron. 176 b, The erle of Marche beyng lusty, and in the floure of his coragious yought [= youth]. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) iii. 116 b, They feede them [stallions] lustely, to make them more coragious, for the lustier they be the better coultes they bring. |