单词 | rabid |
释义 | rabidadj. 1. a. Furious, raging; wildly aggressive or violent. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > frenzied or raging aweddeOE woodc1000 woodlyc1000 wildc1300 franticc1390 ramage1440 welling woodc1440 staringc1449 rammistc1455 rabious1460 horn-wood?a1500 rammisha1500 enragea1522 frenzic1547 wood-like1578 horn-mad1579 woodful1582 frenzicala1586 ragefula1586 rabid1594 ravening1599 ravenous1607 Pythic1640 exorbitant1668 frenziful1726 haggard-wild1786 frenzied1796 maenadic1830 berserk1867 up the wall1951 ballistic1981 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > fiercely or furiously violent bremec1175 wooda1250 furiousc1374 rabious1460 rageous1486 furibund1490 bremelya1500 orped1567 yond1590 rabid1594 1594 G. Chapman Σκìα Νυκτòς sig. Eijv Slip euerie sort of poisoned herbes, and plants, And bring thy rabid mastifs to these hants. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xii. 428 All the rabide flight Of winds that ruine ships are bred in night. 1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis iii. 62 Rabid with anguish, he retorts his looke Vpon the wound. 1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur iv. 108 He licks his rabid Jaws. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature vii. 146 Some men are naturally..thievish, pugnacious, rabid. 1772 H. H. Brackenridge & P. M. Freneau Poem on Rising Glory Amer. 26 The lion and the lamb In mutual friendship link'd shall browse the shrub, And tim'rous deer with rabid tygers stray. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna v. vii. 96 Like rabid snakes, that sting some gentle child Who brings them food. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) x. 89 He was made so rabid by the gout. 1877 H. James American xv. 266 I feel as if I might turn rabid and do something crazy in consequence. 1933 Amer. Boy Sept. 34/3 The second batter was knocked to the ground. An angry roar rose from the rabid group of prehistoric men behind third. 1979 A. Sillitoe Storyteller i. ii. 37 The glares that bounced back were rabid. 2001 London Rev. Bks. 22 Feb. 23/3 That rabid wind bangs shutters, discolours the sea, dishevels the world outdoors. b. Of a feeling, passion, disease, etc.: raging, rampant; unbridled, uncontrollable; (also, of an attitude, view, etc.) extreme, fanatical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > of emotions unreineda1500 effrenate1561 unbitteda1586 rabid1641 rampish1661 1641 E. Dering Foure Cardinall-vertues Carmelite-fryar iii. 52 Sometime a rabid anger, may make a curre bite out his own Teeth. 1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 25 Hee..Strokes and tames my rabid Griefe. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Of Pythagorean Philos. in Fables 512 With rabid Hunger feed upon your kind. 1773 R. Hitchcock Macaroni II. Prol. Shou'd their rabid rage, misplac'd, light here. 1838 J. F. Cooper Homeward Bound I. vii. 114 He had a rabid desire for the good opinion of every thing human. 1858 W. E. Gladstone Stud. Homer I. 141 She has not the rabid virulence against Troy which distinguishes Juno. 1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent II. xii. 361 The itch disease was rabid..about a dozen of the men were fearful objects of its virulence. 1904 J. London Sea-wolf xxi. 200 Mugridge seemed to be in rabid fear of the water. 1918 Times 2 Dec. 7/5 He never hesitated to tell his own people unpalatable truths or to oppose rabid nationalism. 1971 S. Howatch Penmarric (1972) iv. ii. 385 Rabid Germanophobia, new rules and regulations, a drop in the quality of food and service—the war permeated everything. 2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 23 Oct. 50 There are occasions—usually on a Saturday, when I find myself with a rabid hunger and nothing much better to do than dream and cook. c. Of a person: having a particular opinion, outlook, or enthusiasm in an extreme or fanatical form. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > zeal or enthusiasm > [adjective] > over-zealous overeager1575 overforward1584 overzealousa1628 rabid1820 over-enthusiastic1857 try-hard1983 1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Nov. 488/2 B. was a rabid pedant. 1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. viii. 270 The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator and rich man, [etc.]. 1884 ‘E. Lyall’ We Two I. xiii. 267 He is very rabid on the subject. 1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson viii. 96 She was a more rabid and devoted Methodist than ever. 1937 Life 26 July 67/1 (caption) A rabid anti-Japanese is Col. Chen Luk-teh of the 29th Army of North China. 1938 Amer. Home Jan. 22/2 A Californian, once bitten, becomes as rabid a glass collector as any native of Sandwich who may have inherited the malady from her grandmother. 1984 A. Oakley Taking it like Woman (1985) 11 Perhaps the entire staff of the school were rabid feminists but if so we did not know, and we certainly weren't. 1992 R. M. Davis Mid-Lands viii. 87 My mother was a little rabid on the distinction, but her attitude was extreme, not unique. 2001 Cult Times Feb. 30/3 A lot of people who are now rabid fans didn't actually see the first episodes because it took two or three years to catch on. 2. a. Affected with rabies. Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [adjective] > rabies woodc1000 rabiate1520 ravening1599 rabid1650 rabitic1887 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > rabies > suffering from rabid1822 rabic1887 1650 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes (new ed.) 27 Whoso hath enjoyed a convalescence from the Hydrophobia, by the lock of wooll, and other pious rites observed, is..himself for ever after protected from a rabid dog [L. a cane furente]. 1699 Etmullerus Abridg'd 553 In the Spittle and Urine of rabid Animals are often seen other small Creatures, resembling the Form of the first Authors of their Madness. 1746 R. Brocklesby Ess. Mortality 26 It was..esteemed the chief method of curing the Bite of a mad Dog, to force the Patient to eat the raw Liver of the rabid Animal. 1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 388 Persons who have had reason to believe, that they were bitten by a rabid animal. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 347 A rabid young man. 1880 Med. Temp. Jrnl. July 147 Bites of rabid animals. 1933 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Mar. 4/2 Eight persons took Pasteur treatment here following the death of a rabid cow on the estate of Leon A. Andrus. 1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 453/2 An unprovoked attack is more likely to mean that the animal is rabid. 2003 Metro 19 Sept. (London ed.) 26/1 ‘We don't do tomato juice and stop smoking at the bar!’ barks the bar-person with all the social skills of a rabid dingo. b. Of or relating to rabies or animals affected with rabies. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > rabies hydrophobical1650 hydrophobial1662 hydrophobous1684 rabid1733 hydrophobic1807 rabific1838 rabic1841 hydrophobious1843 1733 J. Allen Summary View Whole Pract. Physick II. Syllabus Symptoms at Delirium Rageing or rabid, Hydrophobia. 1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 412 Nothing characteristic of rabid hydrophobia. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 375 Their plan of abstracting rabid blood from the system. 1887 Dolan Hydrophobia 8 An accompaniment of the rabid virus. 1987 R. Godden Time to Dance (1989) 13 The nearer the brain the more dangerous and quick is a rabid bite. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1594 |
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