savageadj.n.¹

Brit.

/ˈsavɪdʒ/, U.S.

/ˈsævɪdʒ/

Forms:

α. Middle English saffage, Middle English saueage, Middle English savaige, Middle English 1600s sauuage, Middle English–1600s sauage, Middle English–1600s sauvage, Middle English– savage, 1500s sauadge, 1500s savvage, 1600s savadg, 1600s savadge; Scottish pre-1700 saffage, pre-1700 sauadge, pre-1700 sauage, pre-1700 sauuage, pre-1700 savadge, pre-1700 savage, pre-1700 savaige, pre-1700 sawage, pre-1700 sawwage, pre-1700 souage, pre-1700 sowage.

β. Middle English salvagh, Middle English–1600s saluage, Middle English–1800s (1900s– Scottish) salvage, 1500s silvage, 1500s sylvage, 1600s salvadge, 1700s selvige.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French savage.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman savage, Anglo-Norman and Old French salvage, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French sauvage, Old French savaige, Middle French sauvaige (French sauvage ) (adjective) (of an animal) wild, undomesticated, (of a place) isolated, remote (both 1121–34), (of a person) uncivilized, rude, coarse (1135), (of land, a country, etc.) uncultivated, uninhabited (c1160), (of a person) badly adapted to life in society, (of plants) naturally growing, wild, uncultivated (both c1165), violent, cruel, brutal (c1208), (of a person) of difficult character (c1265), (of manners, attitudes, etc.) rude, uncivilized (end of the 14th cent.), of or belonging to peoples regarded as primitive (1596), difficult to tame or control (1690), (noun) member of a people regarded as primitive (1596), person who lives in solitude and avoids human contact (1656), violent or brutal person (1806) < classical Latin silvāticus (in post-classical Latin also, with vowel-assimilation, salvaticus (8th cent.)) woodland, wild (see sylvatic adj.); compare -age suffix. Compare post-classical Latin salvagius, savagius (from c1100 in British sources), Old Occitan salvatge (c1160), salvage (1234), sauvage (1432), Catalan salvatge (1271), Spanish salvaje (c1330; < Occitan or Catalan), Portuguese salvagem (14th cent., now historical and colloquial), selvagem (1571; now the usual form), Italian selvaggio (a1321; < French), Romanian sălbatic.Compare the following surnames, recorded earlier in England, although it is unclear whether these show the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word: Edric Saluage (1066), Arnulfus Salvage (c1180), Sibill la Sauuage (1200), Galfrido le Salvage (c1223). Compare also the field name Savageshamme , Wiltshire (1300), which probably shows the surname. The older Scots forms souage, sowage may be editorial misreadings. It is uncertain whether the following quotation shows earlier use as noun (perhaps in a sense ‘violent sorrow or grief’), or whether it shows an error for rage (the reading of other manuscripts):a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 24351 Þat suime was of mi soru suage, Bot quen i raxed vp in sauage I ne wist bot walaway.

A. adj.

I. That is in a state of nature, wild.

1. Of an animal: wild, undomesticated, untamed. Also: of or belonging to a wild or untamed animal. In later use chiefly with connotations of ferocity, merging with sense A. 6b.

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the world > animals > domestic animal > [adjective] > untamed

wildc725

untemeda1000

savagea1275

ramagec1300

untameda1340

untamea1382

ramageousa1398

tameless1597

unreclaimed1614

indomite1617

immansuete1656

feral1659

myall1848

wilding1853

maroon1890

undomesticated1972

α.

a1275 Body & Soul (Trin. Cambr. B.14.39) l. 30 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 120 To..biden leuns sauage [?a1300 Digby 86 sauuage].

c1330 Roland & Vernagu (Auch.) (1882) l. 92 Bifor sir charls he brouȝt Sauage bestes..Gold & siluer, & riche stones.

1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) Prol. 11 But a lytel I reioysed me in the sowne and songe of the fowles sauuage.

?1531 tr. Erasmus Treat. perswadynge Man Patientlye to Suffre sig. A.v By crafty handelynge the sauage beastis, yea the moste wylde of them all, are made tame.

1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 58^v An Asse sauage passante.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 78 Youthfull and vnhandled colts..their sauage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze, by the sweet power of musique.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xx. 163 Now of those [Fowles of Prey] which are Predable, whereof some are Sauage, some Domesticall: the Sauage I call those that are not subiect to mans gouernment, but doe naturally shun their societie.

1697 D. Baker Poems 122 'Twixt tame and savage Beasts there shall remain No diff'rence in thy peaceful Reign.

1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos I. iii. 138 It is the nature of all savage animals to avoid mankind.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 272 An angry and ferocious disposition, renders the dog, in its savage state, a formidable enemy to all other animals.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury xlvi, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 310 A story so absurd, As that a new-born infant forth could fare Out of his home after a savage herd.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 219 The cattle were..mostly old savage devils, all horn and hide.

1914 J. M. Barrie Admirable Crichton ii. 76 Night falls suddenly in these parts, and it is then that savage animals begin to prowl and roar.

2001 D. Carlyon Dan Rice ii. 25 The unpaved streets.., alive with rats, dogs, and the usual savage pigs.

β. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 148^v Y^e partie had the mynde or stomake, not of a manne, but of a veraye brute and salvage beaste.1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Avij^v We haue almaner of bestes saluages that you haue and more plente of them to chase.1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer i. 815 Whom late the salvage Bore..Hath rooted up, with purpose to devoure.a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 39 Lyons, and other Salvage Creatures.

a. Of country, land, or landscape: uncultivated, wild; (hence by association with branch A. II.) rugged, forbidding, inhospitable. Also: of or belonging to such a landscape.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > [adjective] > scenic > wild

savagec1330

unbenec1400

rudec1405

scragged1519

austere?1580

stark1799

stern1812

the world > the earth > land > landscape > [adjective] > scenic > wild > horribly

savage1810

α.

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 5433 Þe xii Drians of þe forest sauage A strong kniȝt of heiȝe parage.

a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 17134 (MED) I ffyl a-noon in my passage In-to a woode ful savage.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xvii. 18 Northumbrelande..was a sauage and a wylde countrey, full of desartis and mountaignes.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. ix. 43 The moste part of the yle is hilly and sauage.

1616 T. Adams Divine Herball 2 Here be two kindes, a good and a bad soyle:..the latter a wild and sauage Forrest of Bryars and thornes.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 23 Affecting private life, or more obscure In savage Wilderness.

1736 S. Duck Poems Several Occasions 90 They quit their Ship, and gain the Shore, And for Recruits the Savage Land explore.

1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 25 The prospect on all sides quite savage, high barren hills..or dreary wet sands.

1810 W. Scott Let. 19–20 Sept. (1932) II. 374 The scenery is quite different from that on the mainland—dark, savage, and horrid.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 11 The view from this place had a savage magnificence.

1907 Bp. Robertson in Trans. Devon Assoc. 47 Savage and forbidding scenes have laid aside their grandeur.

1983 R. Kelly Under Words 20 Some once-elegant carving on an Italian column I came across in a savage garden.

1988 K. Lynch Adventures on Wine Route (1990) iii. 74 There is a wild, savage beauty to the landscape.

β. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke v. f. lxiiii The desertnesse of the countrey lying waste and saluage, did nothyng feare theim from commyng to hym.1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Gj^v It is throughout baren and saluage, so that it is not able to nourishe any beastes for lacke of pasture.1645 E. Waller Poems 73 Eurydice, for whom his num'rous moan Makes listning trees, and salvage mountains groan.1713 J. Addison in Guardian 7 July 1/2 Fountaine-bleau..is situated among Rocks and Woods, that give you a fine Variety of Salvage Prospects.1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 96 The old salvage character of the hill has disappeared.

b. Of a plant or tree: wild, uncultivated. Now rare.

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the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [adjective] > wild or not cultivated

wildc725

untameda1340

unsownc1374

unplanteda1382

savagea1500

natural1526

self-sowed1597

self-sown1608

maiden1616

voluntary1620

spontaneous1665

uncultivated1697

wilding1697

volunteer1794

uncultured1804

agrarian1851

self-raised1852

α.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 244 Letus [MS. betus] sauage, that is y-callid scariole.

1577 R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies f. 253 The greater part of the quadrangle [is] set with sauage trees, as Okes, Chestnuttes, Cypres.

1633 H. Hawkins Partheneia Sacra ii. 20 Behold heer..the Prouince, the White, the Sauage Rose (which growes in the Eglantines) and lastly the Golden Rose.

1655 R. Fanshawe tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad iv. lxx. 89 One of those Mountains was inhabited; Where thousand savage Trees with leavie Locks The intercourse of people hindered.

1733 A. Pope Ess. Man ii. 170 As Fruits..On savage Stocks inserted, learn to bear.

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xiv. 82 St. Foin..grows naturally Savage without Sowing or Tillage, upon the Calabrian Hills near Croto.

1753 J. Warton tr. Virgil Eclogues & Georgics I. 223 With culture civilize your savage trees, Nor let your lands lie dead in slothful ease.

1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty iv, in Prometheus Unbound 210 The vine, the corn, the olive mild, Grew savage yet, to human use unreconciled.

1883 Cent. Mag. Nov. 47/1 The lofty hedge is becrimsoned with savage roses, in whose degenerate petals still linger traces of former high cultivation.

1914 C. W. Earle & E. Case Pot-pourri mixed by Two 176 Americans call wild trees savage trees.

1921 D. H. Lawrence in Dial Nov. 592 This Sunday morning, seeing the frost among the tangled, still savage bushes of Sardinia, my soul thrilled again.

β. 1599 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 202 A place..which yeeldeth balme in great plenty, but saluage, wilde, and without vertue.?1655 R. Baron Mirza 181 Caucasus..is uninhabited, producing little but salvage Trees, and poysonous herbs.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 72 Thus the salvage Cherry grows.

†c. Of decoration: rustic, imitating natural vegetation. Obsolete. rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > [adjective] > specific style

Moorish1434

savage1548

damaskeen1551

grotesque1603

Mogul1617

pierced1756

baroque1765

rocaille1776

rococo1830

plateresque1845

Alhambresque1848

François Premier1850

Mudéjar1865

serio-grotesque1873

famille verte1876

barocco1877

rococoesque1885

famille rose1893

famille noire1898

Ch'ien Lung1901

Marie Antoinette1909

Mosan1910

famille jaune1923

Romanizing1936

quatre-couleur1959

penworked1965

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clvi^v The Jawe peces..were karued with Vinettes and trailes of sauage worke.

a. Of a person: living in a wild state; belonging to a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized. Of a tribe, society, region, etc.: consisting or composed of people regarded as primitive and uncivilized.Now usually historical or offensive: see note at sense B. 3a.

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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [adjective] > specifically of persons

savage?1473

uncivil1553

society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [adjective]

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bestiala1398

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rudea1530

barbar1535

barbarous1538

pagan1550

uncivil1553

Scythical1559

raw?1573

savaged1583

incivil1586

savage1589

barbarian1591

uncivilized1607

negerous1609

mountainous1613

ruvid1632

ruvidous1632

barbarious1633

incivilizeda1645

alabandical1656

inhumanea1680

tramontane1740

semi-barbarous1798

irreclaimed1814

semi-savage1833

semiferine1854

warrigal1855

sloven1856

semi-barbaric1864

pre-civilized1876

wild and woolly1884

jungle1908

medieval1917

jungli1920

society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [adjective] > relating to uncivilized people

uncivil1553

savage1589

α.

?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 29 Calisto..was euyl clothid and half wilde and sauage.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxiii. 436 The sauage man..was Merlin of Northumberlande.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. iii. 4 He brought the rude and sauage people to a more ciuill and orderly life.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 220 Like a rude and sauadge man of Inde.

1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 27 Taking for their leader the Earle of Desmond and others, as Oneale, and some other of the sauage Irish.

1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 196 The Britains were for the most part an abject savage people.

1757 T. Gray Ode I ii. ii, in Odes 8 She [sc. the Muse] deigns to hear the savage Youth repeat, In loose numbers wildly sweet Their feather-cinctured Chiefs and dusky Loves.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxx. 170 The barriers, which had so long separated the savage and the civilised nations of the earth.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 109 I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 73 The south..was, through its neighbourhood and intercourse with Gaul, somewhat less savage than the rest of the island.

1906 A. Machen House of Souls 7 The enemies of the cruel Star Chamber caused the savage Indian to disappear from the land.

1951 H. Arendt Burden of our Time ii. vi. 161 The honesty and simplicity of savage and uncivilized peoples were opposed to the sophistication and frivolity of culture.

1995 Guardian 27 Oct. (Friday Review section) 5/1 Since returning from Rwanda, I have heard many smug voices decrying the savage Africans and their ‘lost’ continent.

2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Feb. 33/2 This expansionism was explained in terms similar to those used by other colonial powers: trade, security, the imperative of ‘civilizing’ savage tribes.

β. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 15 Antisthenes..had to his father a citezen of Athenes, but to his mother a woman of a barbarous or saluage countree.1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xiii. §7. 435 In these times Greece was very saluage, the inhabitants being often chaced from place to place, by the captaines of greater Tribes.1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 20 The more than Brutality of some savage and barbarous Nations.1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 271 From a Salvage Prince rendred himself a tame Follower of the Patriarch St. Gregory.

†b. Remote from society; solitary, isolated. Obsolete.In some quots. difficult to distinguish from sense A. 3a.

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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective]

onlyOE

alonec1175

solitarya1340

lone1377

ledelessc1400

fellowless?c1425

savage1535

neighbourless1550

private1599

discompanied1601

unattended1603

disaccompanied1605

lonelya1616

marrowless?1635

companionless1644

unneighboured1657

unaccompanied1709

unescorted1774

uncompanioned1822

comradeless1891

1535 R. Copland tr. Complaynt of them that be to soone Maryed sig. A^v Better it were to be a man sauage Than to be take in that ylke lase.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1085 O might I here In solitude live savage, in some glade Obscur'd.

1680 T. Otway Orphan ii. 21 I, methinks, am Salvage and forlorn, Thy Presence only 'tis, can make me blest.

c. Of, relating to, or characteristic of primitive peoples.

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the world > people > ethnicities > [adjective]

heathenic1554

savage1559

heathnical1583

ethnical1818

ethnic1841

multi-ethnic1941

mono-ethnic1968

α.

1559 W. Bavand tr. J. Ferrarius Common Weale iv. ii. f. 59^v The Poetes were wonte to call menne into townes from their wilde and sauage life.

?1590–1 J. Burel Discription Queens Entry Edinb. in Poems sig. L4^v Hir Grace past to ane vther pairt: Quhair sche, beheld sum..A coutert, in ane sauadge sort.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. vii. §3. 102 The first people which after the generall floud inhabited Italie, were the Camesenes;..which people liued altogether a sauage life.

1681 Bp. S. Parker Demonstr. Divine Authority i. 77 The farther off they keep from this savage State, the nearer do they approach to the Contentment and Tranquility of their Lives.

1727 Missionalia 66 The Humanizing of them [sc. American Indians], and Reducing them from a Savage, to a Civil Way of Life.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. liii. 494 The Grecian princess was torn from the palace of her fathers, and condemned to a savage reign and an hopeless exile on the banks of the Borysthenes.

1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 30 Nov. 231 The civilized man gives up those stimulants of hope and fear which constitute the chief charm of the savage life.

1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. iv. 176 This is the purely savage state; and it is the state in which military glory is most esteemed, and military men most respected.

1899 R. C. Temple Univ. Gram. 24 The ‘savage’ nature of the languages comes out even more clearly if we apply the theory in another way.

1934 G. Greene It's a Battlefield i. 1 Young men had certain savage qualities; they moved quickly; they sometimes carried poisoned weapons.

1971 N. Sherry Conrad's Western World xi. 100 His intimate knowledge of the savage customs.

1990 Crafts Sept. 22/1 Images of African Art..challenges the established view of the relationship between ‘savage’ art and Modernism.

β. 1612 W. Symonds Proc. Eng. Colonie Virginia xii. 98 in J. Smith Map of Virginia The rest he seated gallantlie at Powhatan, in their Salvage fort they built.1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. viii. §5. 140 There is no man so impious, as to beleeue that Noah..could..set vp or deuise any Heathen saluage, or idolatrous adoration.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 427 Like Hercules himself, his Son appears, In Salvage Pomp a Lyon's Hide he wears.

II. In extended use with reference to behaviour, disposition, or character.

†4.

a. Indomitable, intrepid, valiant. Obsolete.In quot. c1330 as an epithet with a proper name.

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the mind > emotion > courage > bravery or boldness > stout-heartedness > [adjective]

savagec1330

well-heartedc1485

stout-hearted1552

steel-hearted1571

intrepid1697

skookum1847

aggro1985

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 8270 Þe v was Dedinet þe saueage.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4022 But sone sauage men þat seten in þe halle henten hastili in honde what þei haue miȝt,..to wende him [sc. the werwolf] after wiȝtli to quelle.

a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) l. 485 An hardy knyght, stout and savage, Hent a schafft with gret rage.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 813 With v thowsand welle garnest and sawage.

b. Reckless, ungovernable. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [adjective] > rash or reckless > specifically of actions, feelings, etc.

recklessOE

racklec1405

savagec1425

rash1533

hot-brained1556

rashful1567

blindfold1593

lavish1600

wretchless1607

blind1615

hand over head1682

wild goose1770

plunging1798

wild cat1890

(like a) bull at a (five-barred) gate1896

c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 4759 I praye the, my moder dere..That thow be wyse and not sauage; Ȝif the not to outrage!

a1500 Bernardus de Cura (1870) l. 300 A mane..of wyne þat has vsage Ande habundance and syne is nocht saffage Th[r]ow mychtiness and confort of þe wyne At temporance bydis and sobyr syne.

a. Of a person, an action, etc.: cruel, brutal, violent.

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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective]

grimlyc893

retheeOE

grim971

bitterOE

bremec1175

grillc1175

grimfula1240

cruel1297

sturdy1297

fiercea1300

fellc1300

boistousa1387

felonousc1386

savagea1393

bestiala1398

bremelya1400

felona1400

hetera1400

cursedc1400

wicked14..

vengeablec1430

wolvishc1430

unnatural?1473

inhuman1481

brutisha1513

cruent1524

felonish1530

mannish1530

abominate1531

lionish1549

boarish?1550

truculent?c1550

unhumanc1550

lion-like1556

beastly1558

orped1567

raw?1573

tigerish?1573

unmanlike1579

boisterous1581

savaged1583

tiger-like1587

yond1590

truculental1593

savage wild1595

tigerous1597

inhumane1598

Neronian1598

immane1599

Phalarical1602

ungentle1603

feral1604

savagious1605

fierceful1607

Dionysian1608

wolvy1611

Hunnish1625

lionly1631

tigerly1633

savage-hearted1639

brutal1641

feroce1641

ferocious1646

asperous1650

ferousa1652

wolfish1674

tiger1763

savage-fierce1770

Tartar1809

Tartarly1821

Neroic1851

tigery1859

Neronic1864

unmannish1867

inhumanitarian1947

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [adjective]

wrothc893

retheeOE

hateleOE

grim971

hardOE

cruel1297

despitousc1374

savagea1393

fadea1400

hetera1400

keen?c1425

vengeablec1430

despiteful1488

unmanfula1500

despiteous?1510

cruent1524

felonish1530

Herodian1581

felly1583

savaged1583

Neronian1598

savagious1605

Dionysian1608

black-blooded1771

atrocious1772

Neroic1851

Neronic1864

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > rough

rudea1375

savagea1393

rougha1398

roid?c1425

brutisha1513

brash1868

roughneck1906

to treat 'em rough1962

α.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. v. l. 95 Orestes cachit in furyus rage For cryme of his moderis slauchtir and savage In lufe hait byrnyng for his spows byreft..Set on this Pirrus.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 5 Of a cruell, wicked, and sauage pleasure.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iv. 253 [Murderer.] Relent, tis cowardly and womanish. Cla. Not to relent, is beastly, sauage, diuelish.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. ii. 92 What shall I say to thee Lord Scroope, thou cruell, Ingratefull, sauage, and inhumane Creature?

1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxii. 296 All savage punishment heretofore used, either have been by Act of Parliament repealed, or obsoleted by disuse.

1749 T. Smollett Regicide i. i. 3 A Wretch Of Soul more savage breathes not vital Air.

1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless IV. vii. 63 His savage treatment of her beloved squirrel.

1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family IV. 190 It would be downright savage to leave Lady Miramont now.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) ix. 77 He had a savage pleasure in making the poor wretches [sc. his creditors] wait.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxiv. 419 The troops were savage, and killed every man that they overtook.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxxvii. 401 His drunkenness was savage and morose.

1962 O. Manning Spoilt City iv. xxii. 243 The blows were given with savage determination.

1993 W. A. McDougall Let Sea make Noise 27 The crown tried to halt their savage treatment of Indian laborers.

β. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 1699 (MED) If ye wiste what I am And out of what lignage I cam, Ye wolde noght be so salvage.1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark v. f. xxxvi^v Yet is there none so fierse and saluage crueltie that we ought to despaire of.1637 W. Saltonstall tr. Eusebius Life Constantine 137 Hee hath changed all mansutude and graciousnesse with salvage fury and cruelty.1694 J. Tillotson Serm. Several Occasions IV. xii. 432 With what a salvage and murderous disposition they will flie at one another's Reputation and tear it in pieces.1746 W. Collins Odes 21 I see recoil his sable steeds, That bore Him swift to Salvage Deeds.

b. colloquial. In predicative use. Of a person: enraged, angry, furious. Also: using angry language. Cf. to cut up savage at cut v. Phrasal verbs. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > furiously angry

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up the wall1951

ravers1967

the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [adjective] > of speech: angry > angry in speech

savage1859

1789 Loiterer 21 Feb. 15 Saw he was going to be savage, so kicked him down stairs to prevent his being impertinent.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 51 Don't let Emmy know that we have told you, else she'll be savage with us.

1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing v. 35 If he [sc. a sick person] can speak without being savage..he is exercising self-control.

1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 3 Come, Jasper, you need not look so savage.

1913 ‘G. A. Birmingham’ Gen. John Regan ix. 135 ‘Devil such a temper I ever saw any woman in, and I've seen some in my day.’ ‘I know she'd be a bit savage. I hoped you wouldn't have met her.’

1969 A. Dixon in P. A. Smith Folklore Austral. Railwaymen 106 Driver Dunning was very touchy at any time but what with him being way out on the track on a Saturday and him being a racing man he was savage.

a. Of a natural force, appetite, disease, etc.: fierce, harsh; uncontrolled, destructive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adjective]

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the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adjective] > specifically of natural agencies

starkeOE

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bolda1522

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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 4112 For as the wilde wode rage Of wyndes makth the See salvage, And that was calm bringth into wawe.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2262 Bot vertu set in the corage, Ther mai no world be so salvage, Which mihte it take and don aweie, Til whanne that the bodi deie.

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 4084 Darrie hete..Remuen his tentes..And setten hem bisides Estrage, A colde water and a sauage.

a1605 (c1422) T. Hoccleve Complaint (Durh.) l. 86 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 98 All-thowghe from hym his siknesse savage with-drawne and passyd..for a tyme be, Resorte it wole.

1637 J. Milton Comus 13 Within the direfull graspe Of Savage hunger, or of Savage heat?

1796 F. Burney Camilla II. iii. xiii. 259 What savage heat! I wish the weather had a little feeling!

1818 P. B. Shelley tr. Homer To Castor & Pollux 9 When wintry tempests o'er the savage sea Are raging.

1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 20 So that the savage winds hung mute around.

1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 362 It would have been alike impossible to see or read [the burial service] in such a fierce, savage stour.

1917 Everybody's Mag. Aug. 164/2 He was convalescent now, after the savage illness that had held him bound through most of the winter.

1972 Observer 23 Apr. (Colour Suppl.) 35/4 Fiennes and Stanley Cribbett skeeter through the savage waters of the Bridge River rapids.

1992 Harrowsmith Oct. 74/1 The rare but savage northwesterlies roaring out of the glaciered mountains.

2013 L. Stott Sc. Hist. in Verse 369 Soutar..contracted a savage illness in 1930 that meant he became bedridden for the remaining 13 years of his life.

b. Of an animal, its behaviour, etc.: ferocious, fierce, vicious. Cf. sense A. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by nature > [adjective] > wild or vicious

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wrothOE

keenOE

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α.

1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 8861 (MED) Tweyn hors of hys wex ful sauage And gunne to nehyn in here fers rage.

a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) l. 3870 Grekys wenyng that were ȝong of age, That this Tygre hadde be sauage, And Cruelly besettyng al the place Round aboute.

1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell sig. Eii^v/1 He wan at length And slew gerione with thre bodys in one with myghty corrage A dauntid the rage Of a lyon sauage.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 5 The wild sauage sowe of Crommyon, otherwise surnamed Phæa.

1611 Bible (King James) Wisd. xvii. 19 A roaring voice of most sauage wilde beasts.

1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §xxvii Euen the Sauagest Beasts are made quiet and docible, with want of food, and rest.

1707 J. Addison Rosamond i. iv. 11 What savage Tiger would not pity A Damsel so distress'd and pretty!

1790 R. Carmichael Poems 71 You, all foaming like a savage bear, Attempt with blust'ring cries to move the fair.

1820 W. Scott Let. 25 Jan. (1934) VI. 127 For all the kind [of dogs] are savage at night.

1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 17 The Killer Whales are known the world over by their destructive and savage habits.

1922 W. T. Hornaday Minds & Manners Wild Animals ix. 91 If we attempted to touch the infant, the mother instantly became savage and dangerous.

1952 Life 21 July 104/2 A chorus of grunts and savage growls went up from the pride.

1990 Evening Standard 6 Mar. 15/1 Dog breeders are mating what the RSPCA describe as the world's most savage dog.

β. 1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes sig. h.j^v Were there euer beastes so saluage, or cruel, to deuour the dam?1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 148 Wherein Iob alludeth to ravenous and salvadge beasts.1696 N. Tate & N. Brady New Version Psalms of David vii. 2 Lest, like a salvage Lion, he My helpless Soul devour.

a. Of movement, noise, demeanour, etc.: wild, uncontrolled, unrestrained; rough, crude.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [adjective] > affected by violent emotion

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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > completely unchecked

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective] > making harsh or discordant sound

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a1450 (?c1430) J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree (Huntington) (1931) l. 114 (MED) I haue not lerned here-a-forne to daunce No daunce in sothe of fotynge so sauage.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. i. 61 But you are more intemperate in your blood, Than Venus, or those pampred animalls, That rage in sauage sensualitie.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 125 The sauage strangenesse he puts on.

1655 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Artamenes IV. vii. iii. 189 Her reputation is high, though her vertue be neither salvage nor austere; but on the contrary sweet and sociable.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 36 The Race Of that wilde Rout that tore the Thracian Bard In Rhodope,..till the savage clamor dround Both Harp and Voice.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 233 Oh to the club, the scene of savage joys, The school of coarse good fellowship and noise.

1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 325 Delights which who would leave..For all the savage din of the swift pack, And clamours of the field?

a1822 P. B. Shelley Triumph of Life in Posthumous Poems (1824) 79 The wild dance maddens in the van, and those Who lead it..without repose Mix with each other in tempestuous measure To savage music, wilder as it grows.

1888 Harper's Mag. Jan. 226/2 ‘Gord! Gord! honey,’ she said, tossing her blue checked apron up and down with wild, savage gestures of dismay and grief.

1946 A. Koestler Thieves in Night viii. 61 [They] had formed the first ring of the horra, the stamping and swaying round-dance, a savage ring-polka.

1989 Dance Nov. 58/2 A savage scale and energy lies at the core of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

2007 Uncut Feb. 80/1 Tiresome bleepery..savage breakbeats..and sci-fi cheese.

b. Of colour: harsh, crude, bright.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > garish

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flagrant1858

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1706 J. Savage tr. R. de Piles Art of Painting 186 He tam'd the fierceness of his Colours, which were too Salvage.

1859 Hist. Mag. (U.S.) Feb. 86/1 We have Little Eyes, Canonchet, Totoson, Tuspaquin, cut on wood, and painted, very appropriately, in most savage colors—fierce looking fellows.

1897 J. Ward Hist. Ornament II. vii. 354 The work of the ninth century was characterized by exceedingly bad drawing and savage colouring.

1933 B. Willoughby Alaskans All 55 An Avernian Caldron, lined with volcanic hues, savage reds, and orange and pink, streaked with black and snow.

2011 R. King Defiant Spirits ii. iii. 192 Those who regarded landscapes as a pictorial balm for weary eyes and shattered nerves were shocked by the savage colours and tentacular lines of the Fauves.

8. Of a judgement, criticism, imposition, etc.: extremely or excessively severe in intent or effect; drastic, harsh.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > [adjective] > specifically of actions or utterances

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1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais Pref. 4 The savage criticism on his [sc. Keats'] Endymion, which appeared in the Quarterly Review, produced the most violent effect on his susceptible mind.

1844 Southern Literary Messenger 10 620 The savage criticism of Gifford, and the coarse personalities of Wilson were poured on him.

a1854 J. Wilson Convict in Poet. Wks. (1858) 194 Prisoner: They will drive me past my own door to the scaffold? Friend: Such is the savage sentence.

1940 S. J. Perelman Let. 12 May in Sel. Lett. (1987) 30 His review of Strictly From Hunger was so savage.

1976 Economist 24 July 73/1 The savage cuts in holiday travel and emigration allowances imposed in last week's Rhodesian budget.

1984 N.Y. Times 22 July ii. 19/2 If you exceed the..speed limit on the East German autobahn system..you can expect a savage fine.

2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 1 May 35/3 Gessen's humor is persistently Seinfeldian, avoiding the excesses of savage comedy or satire.

B. n.¹

†a. A wild or untamed animal. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by nature > [noun] > wild animal

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?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1996) I. l. 1710 Qwat mane so dose slike vttrage, Enters to sclo þe kynges salvagh,..Lyffe sall he lose, lyme, or be schent.

a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. B.ii^v From the rockes toppe then [sic] dryuen sauage rose.

?1609 G. Chapman tr. Homer Twelue Bks. Iliads v. 70 And made him able with his Dart, infalliblie to reach All sorts of subtlest sauages, which many a woddie hill Bred for him.

1682 T. Southerne Loyal Brother iv. i. 42 What unfrequented Coast am I thrown on, Naked, and helpless, to be made a prey To the next coming salvage of the field?

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 11. ⁋12 The suspicion and solicitude of a man that plays with a tame tiger, always under a necessity of watching the moment in which the capricious savage shall begin to growl.

1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives I. 9 Crommyon was infested by a wild sow named Phæa... This savage he [sc. Theseus]..killed.

1831 T. B. Macaulay Hampden in Ess. ⁋14 The man who, in a Spanish bull-fight, goads the torpid savage to fury, by shaking a red rag in the air.

1882 St. Nicholas Feb. 318/2 Nor do mere ‘food and attendance’ include all the large items of a quadruped savage's board bill.

b. A vicious horse. Cf. note at savage v. 3b. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [noun] > vicious or bad-tempered

jadec1386

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1859 Illustr. London News 29 Jan. 17/3 Mr. Rarey has given four ‘demonstrations’.., and handled nine horses, one of them a very wicked pieball mare, and the grey savage par excellence of the army.

1869 ‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. vi His experience of similar animals led him to house a donkey in the same box with Warrener, with whom the savage soon fraternised, and displayed corresponding improvement in his temper.

1888 W. Day Horse 419 We also have in Paradox a modern savage, like his grey prototype.

1937 C. E. Perkins Pinto Horse vi. 35 Among the older gelding was a flea-bitten, much branded grey savage.

†2. Savageness, ferocity. Obsolete.Only recorded in Skelton, in collocation with furious.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun]

rethenesseOE

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c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iii. 180 He had..like a myghty strong lion in his furious savage slayen..his mortall ennemyes.

c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 258 There is a wilde bull that passeth and excedeth this beste in furious savaige.

a. A person living in a wild state; a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized. Cf. noble savage n.Now usually avoided as offensive, except in historical reference to the language or attitudes of the past.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun] > uncivilized person

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Caliban1678

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Hottentot1710

semi-savage1807

pagan1879

α.

1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya ii. 11 Y^e Sauages heard y^e shot of one of our caliuers.

1585 R. Lane Let. 12 Aug. in Trans. & Coll. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. (1860) 4 10 I leave to certyfye your honor of what lyekelyhuddes founde, or what the savvages reporte of better matters.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 200 Vouchsafe to shew the sunshine of your face, That we (like sauages) may worship it.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 292 Some scattering Arabs, sold vs Water... Two of which Sauages our Captayne hyred, to guide vs.

1658 R. Flecknoe Enigmaticall Characters 67 Would tame fierce Lions, and civilize barbarousest Savages.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 242 Upon this my Savage..made a Motion to me to lend him my Sword.

1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music iii. 29 The Iroquois, Hurons, and some less considerable Tribes, are free and independent Savages.

1804 Sydney Gaz. 17 June 2 At length came up with forty or fifty of the hostile savages, who had a quantity of property of which they had stripped the settlers.

1868 Galaxy Mar. 370 The rude agricultural implements of an African savage.

1907 G. Tyrrell Oil & Wine 24 To the savage every stranger is therefore an enemy.

1975 J. Clavell Shōgun (1980) xix. 319 You can't treat Japan like an Inca protectorate peopled with jungle savages who have neither history not culture.

1992 Billboard 28 Nov. 85/2 [He] reportedly referred to new Colorado senator Ben Night Horse Campbell as an ‘injun’ and called Native Americans ‘savages’.

2001 B. Stanley Christian Missions & Enlightenment viii. 179 No preparatory process of civilization was necessary before ‘savages’ could respond to the gospel.

β. a1544 R. Barlow tr. M. Fernández de Enciso Brief Summe Geogr. (1932) 50 The people [sc. the Irish]..liveth by stelyng and robbyng as sylvages which lieth abrode in forests and marrys groundes in litle towres.1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia ii. i. 3 Wee traded with the Salvages at Dominica.a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 58 Doe you put trickes vpon's with Saluages, and Men of Inde? 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. ii. 156 Seeing we are civilized English men, let us not be naked Salvages in our talk.1698 E. Ward Trip to Jamaica (ed. 3) 10 The next Morning the Salvages Man'd out a Fleet of their Deal Skimming-dishes.1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 40 Among Strangers and Salvages.

b. A cruel or brutal person; (also) a person who is coarse, rough, or uncouth.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > savage person > [noun]

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Turk1536

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Tartar1669

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Huna1744

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > person

wolfa900

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Turk1536

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savage1609

hell-kitea1616

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [noun] > uncultured person

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Huna1744

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Philistine1825

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lowbrow1901

meatball1937

primitive1967

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. iii. 51 Hect. Fie sauage, fie. Troy. Hector then 'tis warres.

1696 T. Comber Disc. Offices 114 But who would imagine, that our Christned Albion should breed such Salvages?

1706 Ld. Godolphin Let. 22 Oct. in H. L. Snyder Marlborough–Godolphin Corr. (1975) II. 720 Some measures ought to be conceived for putting a stop to these savages.

1762 G. Colman Musical Lady ii. i. 20 Sophy. Oh—the people here are all downright Goths. Mask. Absolute savages—an English catch, a Scotch jigg, and an Irish howl are all their ideas of harmony.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 422 Witness the patient ox,..Driv'n to the slaughter..while the savage at his heels Laughs at the frantic suff'rer's fury.

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. i. iii. 15 However,..the young savages at Burnsley Vicarage had caught a Tartar.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. 8/1 Schoolboys..are not such savages as in the old days.

1939 C. Seiler Our Girls i. 7 He's so loud and rough, a perfect little savage.

1967 Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. 18/1 Animals kill only in self-defense or for food... The ‘savages’ in our cities do it for ‘kicks’.

2008 J. P. Hunt Goodbye Sister Disco xxxi. 234 I can beg for my life, beg for it from savages who shot bullets into poor Tom like he was a large bag of cooking rice.

a. In outdoor shows, pageants, masques, etc.: a person dressed in greenery, representing a wild man of the woods; = savage man n. 1. Cf. green man n. 1a. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > persons and characters > [noun]

savage?1578

?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 20 This Sauage for the more submission brake his tree a sunder.

1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote xx. 129 Before them came a woodden Castle, which was shot at by two Sauages clad in Iuie and Canuas, died in greene, so to the life, that they had well-nigh frighted Sancho.

1843 Penny Mag. 18 Nov. 445/1 Two ‘woodmen’, or savages, carried clubs and hurled squibs to clear the way for the procession.

1862 G. J. Whyte-Melville Queen's Maries I. xiv. 193 The masque will only be six against six as usual,..six Savages and six Amazons.

1905 E. E. Stoll John Webster iii. 150 Country-men, milk-maids, savages, or the like.

2004 G. J. Buelow Hist. Baroque Music xi. 356 Following dances for fairies and anti-masque savages (or ‘green men’, according to the score for the first production), the masque takes a sudden turn to low comedy.

b. Heraldry. A figure of a savage or wild man, typically represented as a naked man wreathed with greenery and depicted as a supporter of a coat of arms; = savage man n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of human or divine beings > [noun] > savage

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1673 in W. Fraser Chiefs of Grant (1883) III. 248 For his crest a burning hill supported be two savadges or naked men, proper.

1680 G. Mackenzie Observ. Laws & Customs of Nations viii. 53 The Royal Arms of Scotland: supported on the..sinister, by a Savage or Wild-man proper.

1785 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 565/1 Two savages, wreathed about the head and middle with laurel, holding branches of trees in their hands, all proper.

1793 Z. Cozens Tour through Isle of Thanet iii. 264 Supporters, dexter, a horse rampant; sinister, a savage, holding in his right hand a spear, or dart point downwards.

1824 Debrett's Baronetage Eng. (ed. 5) II. 1028 A savage's head, affrontée, proper, between two branches of laurel.

1887 E. Farrer Church Heraldry Norfolk I. 200 Beneath, on a small shield supported by two savages, Argent, a bordure gules.

1920 H. Lee Hist. Clan Donald ix. 137 Dexter, a savage wreathed about the temples and loins with ivy.

2006 B. A. McAndrew Scotland's Hist. Heraldry vii. 133 Two hairy savages are the supporters.

†c. At the church of St Dunstan in the West, London: either of two figures depicted wearing loincloths and bearing clubs which strike the bells of the clock. Obsolete.Since the 19th cent. the figures have been identified with the giants Gog and Magog.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of

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1690 T. D'Urfey Collin's Walk ii. 47 Two Savages arm'd with Battoons, On Bells, make here alternate Sounds.

1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) I. iii. xii. 276/2 On the side of the Church, in a handsome Frame of Architecture, are placed, in a standing Posture, two Savages, or Hercules, with Clubs erect; which quarterly strike on two Bells hanging there.

1767 W. Kenrick Widow'd Wife iii. i. 38 Sure the grim savages at St. Dunstan's still stand centinel, to strike the hours on the clock!

1803 J. P. Malcolm Londinium Redivivum III. 461 Their clock and savages, whose fascinating movements attract twenty pair of eyes every quarter of an hour.

1865 Law Times 9 Sept. 541/3 We have stood near the Temple gateway to see the old sooty bronze savages lift their clubs against the bell of St. Dunstan.

Compounds

a. Complementary, parasynthetic, etc.

savage-hearted adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective]

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Tartar1809

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Neroic1851

tigery1859

Neronic1864

unmannish1867

inhumanitarian1947

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [adjective] > fierce of mind or spirit

tiger-hearted1597

tiger-passioned1597

savage-hearted1639

1639 W. Lower Phaenix in her Flames iv. sig. H2^v Vnkinde Amandus, More salvage hearted then the boy Adonis.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xxvii. 223 O thou savage-hearted monster! What work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance!

1819 A. Grant Let. 23 Jan. in Mem. & Corr. (1844) II. 223 His savage-hearted prototype.

1921 Rep. 44th Ann. Meeting Amer. Bar Assoc. 285 14,000 savage-hearted men and women who have taken the lives of their fellows.

2010 S. Fletcher Corrag iii. ii. 159 Their chief is savage-hearted, even to Highlanders.

savage looking adj.

ΚΠ

1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor lxxxii. 273 The savage-looking shepherds called off and chid their dogs.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xliv. 398 He..glared at him with savage-looking eyes.

1954 F. C. Lane All about Insect World 24 Perhaps the most savage looking [moth] is the hickory horned devil.

1998 A. Thorpe Pieces of Light (1999) i. 3 They were rather savage looking, with big white teeth and red gums.

savage spoken adj. now rare

ΚΠ

1845 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. May 462/2 We meet occasionally with some desperately savage spoken fellows, who are, at the bottom, the very Sydneys of courtesy and kindness.

1894 Outing 24 230/1 A savage-spoken old Scotch woman.

1929 N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 542/1 A carelessly dressed, savage spoken and dynamic rebel.

b. Appositive.

† savage-fierce adj. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective]

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Neronic1864

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inhumanitarian1947

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [adjective]

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1770 E. Lechmere Poems & Transl. 18 Beasts e'en as savage fierce as those Which Daunia's thick-grown woods disclose.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 487 Vicious in act, in temper savage-fierce.

1839 E. S. Wortley Visionary iii. ii. 206 'Twas he that headed and controulled The Jannizzaries' haughty bands of old, Controul most doubtful,—savage-fierce were they.

† savage wild adj. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adjective]

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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective]

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1595 E. Spenser Amoretti xx, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. B3^v She more cruell and more saluage wylde, then either Lyon or the Lyonesse: shames not to be with guiltlesse bloud defylde.

1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 37 The time and my intents are sauage wilde [1597 sauage, wilde] .

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	savage
释义	Savagen.² Brit. /ˈsavɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈsævᵻdʒ/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Savage. Etymology: < the name of Arthur William Savage (1857–1938), inventor, and founder of the Savage Arms Company. I. Compounds. 1. attributive. Designating any of various firearms produced by Arthur Savage or by the Savage Arms Company, esp. a hammerless lever-action repeating rifle.The Savage rifle was patented in 1893 and the Savage Arms Company set up in 1894 to produce it. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > small arms by manufacturer Springfield1813 Remington1846 Sharps1850 Smith & Wesson1859 Savage1892 Parabellum1904 Webley1911 Walther1920 Tokarev1953 Armalite1958 1892 Ann. Rep. Secretary of War (U.S. War Dept.) III. 170 The Savage gun was ready for trial. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 657/2 The Savage magazine rifle, model 1899, is a ‘hammerless’, lever-action repeating arm. 1916 Fur News Feb. 17/1 For guns I have a .22 Savage repeater, which I bought in the summer to shoot squirrels with. 1964 H. L. Peterson Encycl. Firearms 30/2 This system was later used by the Mexican Obregon pistol and in a slightly modified form by Savage pistols. 2004 R. D. Rogers Living beyond Danger Zone xiii. 86 I readied my .300 Savage rifle in case of trouble. II. Simple uses. 2. A firearm produced by Arthur Savage or the Savage Arms Company, esp. a hammerless lever-action repeating rifle. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [noun] > type of firearm > by manufacturer Whitworth1858 Springfield1862 Krupp1883 Savage1893 Skoda1902 1893 Ann. Rep. Secretary of War (U.S. War Dept.) III. 138 The Savage, caliber .30 (No. 3 on list of guns), submitted by Arthur Savage, Utica, N.Y. 1903 Kynoch Jrnl. Feb. 62/1 I had my ·301 Savage. 1957 Michigan State Police Ann. Rep. 1956 15/1 When Luckey glanced in the kitchen window he saw Richards sitting on the floor with a rifle across his legs. It was a .300 Savage. 2008 Field & Stream Dec. 94 Here are the 10 deer rifles that I favor above all others. The Savage is my favorite. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). savageadj.n.¹ Brit. /ˈsavɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈsævɪdʒ/ Forms: α. Middle English saffage, Middle English saueage, Middle English savaige, Middle English 1600s sauuage, Middle English–1600s sauage, Middle English–1600s sauvage, Middle English– savage, 1500s sauadge, 1500s savvage, 1600s savadg, 1600s savadge; Scottish pre-1700 saffage, pre-1700 sauadge, pre-1700 sauage, pre-1700 sauuage, pre-1700 savadge, pre-1700 savage, pre-1700 savaige, pre-1700 sawage, pre-1700 sawwage, pre-1700 souage, pre-1700 sowage. β. Middle English salvagh, Middle English–1600s saluage, Middle English–1800s (1900s– Scottish) salvage, 1500s silvage, 1500s sylvage, 1600s salvadge, 1700s selvige. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French savage. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman savage, Anglo-Norman and Old French salvage, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French sauvage, Old French savaige, Middle French sauvaige (French sauvage ) (adjective) (of an animal) wild, undomesticated, (of a place) isolated, remote (both 1121–34), (of a person) uncivilized, rude, coarse (1135), (of land, a country, etc.) uncultivated, uninhabited (c1160), (of a person) badly adapted to life in society, (of plants) naturally growing, wild, uncultivated (both c1165), violent, cruel, brutal (c1208), (of a person) of difficult character (c1265), (of manners, attitudes, etc.) rude, uncivilized (end of the 14th cent.), of or belonging to peoples regarded as primitive (1596), difficult to tame or control (1690), (noun) member of a people regarded as primitive (1596), person who lives in solitude and avoids human contact (1656), violent or brutal person (1806) < classical Latin silvāticus (in post-classical Latin also, with vowel-assimilation, salvaticus (8th cent.)) woodland, wild (see sylvatic adj.); compare -age suffix. Compare post-classical Latin salvagius, savagius (from c1100 in British sources), Old Occitan salvatge (c1160), salvage (1234), sauvage (1432), Catalan salvatge (1271), Spanish salvaje (c1330; < Occitan or Catalan), Portuguese salvagem (14th cent., now historical and colloquial), selvagem (1571; now the usual form), Italian selvaggio (a1321; < French), Romanian sălbatic.Compare the following surnames, recorded earlier in England, although it is unclear whether these show the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word: Edric Saluage (1066), Arnulfus Salvage (c1180), Sibill la Sauuage (1200), Galfrido le Salvage (c1223). Compare also the field name Savageshamme , Wiltshire (1300), which probably shows the surname. The older Scots forms souage, sowage may be editorial misreadings. It is uncertain whether the following quotation shows earlier use as noun (perhaps in a sense ‘violent sorrow or grief’), or whether it shows an error for rage (the reading of other manuscripts):a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 24351 Þat suime was of mi soru suage, Bot quen i raxed vp in sauage I ne wist bot walaway. A. adj. I. That is in a state of nature, wild. 1. Of an animal: wild, undomesticated, untamed. Also: of or belonging to a wild or untamed animal. In later use chiefly with connotations of ferocity, merging with sense A. 6b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > domestic animal > [adjective] > untamed wildc725 untemeda1000 savagea1275 ramagec1300 untameda1340 untamea1382 ramageousa1398 tameless1597 unreclaimed1614 indomite1617 immansuete1656 feral1659 myall1848 wilding1853 maroon1890 undomesticated1972 α. a1275 Body & Soul (Trin. Cambr. B.14.39) l. 30 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 120 To..biden leuns sauage [?a1300 Digby 86 sauuage]. c1330 Roland & Vernagu (Auch.) (1882) l. 92 Bifor sir charls he brouȝt Sauage bestes..Gold & siluer, & riche stones. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) Prol. 11 But a lytel I reioysed me in the sowne and songe of the fowles sauuage. ?1531 tr. Erasmus Treat. perswadynge Man Patientlye to Suffre sig. A.v By crafty handelynge the sauage beastis, yea the moste wylde of them all, are made tame. 1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 58^v An Asse sauage passante. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 78 Youthfull and vnhandled colts..their sauage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze, by the sweet power of musique. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xx. 163 Now of those [Fowles of Prey] which are Predable, whereof some are Sauage, some Domesticall: the Sauage I call those that are not subiect to mans gouernment, but doe naturally shun their societie. 1697 D. Baker Poems 122 'Twixt tame and savage Beasts there shall remain No diff'rence in thy peaceful Reign. 1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos I. iii. 138 It is the nature of all savage animals to avoid mankind. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 272 An angry and ferocious disposition, renders the dog, in its savage state, a formidable enemy to all other animals. a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury xlvi, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 310 A story so absurd, As that a new-born infant forth could fare Out of his home after a savage herd. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 219 The cattle were..mostly old savage devils, all horn and hide. 1914 J. M. Barrie Admirable Crichton ii. 76 Night falls suddenly in these parts, and it is then that savage animals begin to prowl and roar. 2001 D. Carlyon Dan Rice ii. 25 The unpaved streets.., alive with rats, dogs, and the usual savage pigs. β. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 148^v Y^e partie had the mynde or stomake, not of a manne, but of a veraye brute and salvage beaste.1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Avij^v We haue almaner of bestes saluages that you haue and more plente of them to chase.1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer i. 815 Whom late the salvage Bore..Hath rooted up, with purpose to devoure.a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 39 Lyons, and other Salvage Creatures. 2. a. Of country, land, or landscape: uncultivated, wild; (hence by association with branch A. II.) rugged, forbidding, inhospitable. Also: of or belonging to such a landscape. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > [adjective] > scenic > wild savagec1330 unbenec1400 rudec1405 scragged1519 austere?1580 stark1799 stern1812 the world > the earth > land > landscape > [adjective] > scenic > wild > horribly savage1810 α. c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 5433 Þe xii Drians of þe forest sauage A strong kniȝt of heiȝe parage. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 17134 (MED) I ffyl a-noon in my passage In-to a woode ful savage. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xvii. 18 Northumbrelande..was a sauage and a wylde countrey, full of desartis and mountaignes. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. ix. 43 The moste part of the yle is hilly and sauage. 1616 T. Adams Divine Herball 2 Here be two kindes, a good and a bad soyle:..the latter a wild and sauage Forrest of Bryars and thornes. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 23 Affecting private life, or more obscure In savage Wilderness. View more context for this quotation 1736 S. Duck Poems Several Occasions 90 They quit their Ship, and gain the Shore, And for Recruits the Savage Land explore. 1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 25 The prospect on all sides quite savage, high barren hills..or dreary wet sands. 1810 W. Scott Let. 19–20 Sept. (1932) II. 374 The scenery is quite different from that on the mainland—dark, savage, and horrid. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 11 The view from this place had a savage magnificence. 1907 Bp. Robertson in Trans. Devon Assoc. 47 Savage and forbidding scenes have laid aside their grandeur. 1983 R. Kelly Under Words 20 Some once-elegant carving on an Italian column I came across in a savage garden. 1988 K. Lynch Adventures on Wine Route (1990) iii. 74 There is a wild, savage beauty to the landscape. β. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke v. f. lxiiii The desertnesse of the countrey lying waste and saluage, did nothyng feare theim from commyng to hym.1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Gj^v It is throughout baren and saluage, so that it is not able to nourishe any beastes for lacke of pasture.1645 E. Waller Poems 73 Eurydice, for whom his num'rous moan Makes listning trees, and salvage mountains groan.1713 J. Addison in Guardian 7 July 1/2 Fountaine-bleau..is situated among Rocks and Woods, that give you a fine Variety of Salvage Prospects.1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 96 The old salvage character of the hill has disappeared. b. Of a plant or tree: wild, uncultivated. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [adjective] > wild or not cultivated wildc725 untameda1340 unsownc1374 unplanteda1382 savagea1500 natural1526 self-sowed1597 self-sown1608 maiden1616 voluntary1620 spontaneous1665 uncultivated1697 wilding1697 volunteer1794 uncultured1804 agrarian1851 self-raised1852 α. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 244 Letus [MS. betus] sauage, that is y-callid scariole. 1577 R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies f. 253 The greater part of the quadrangle [is] set with sauage trees, as Okes, Chestnuttes, Cypres. 1633 H. Hawkins Partheneia Sacra ii. 20 Behold heer..the Prouince, the White, the Sauage Rose (which growes in the Eglantines) and lastly the Golden Rose. 1655 R. Fanshawe tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad iv. lxx. 89 One of those Mountains was inhabited; Where thousand savage Trees with leavie Locks The intercourse of people hindered. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man ii. 170 As Fruits..On savage Stocks inserted, learn to bear. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xiv. 82 St. Foin..grows naturally Savage without Sowing or Tillage, upon the Calabrian Hills near Croto. 1753 J. Warton tr. Virgil Eclogues & Georgics I. 223 With culture civilize your savage trees, Nor let your lands lie dead in slothful ease. 1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty iv, in Prometheus Unbound 210 The vine, the corn, the olive mild, Grew savage yet, to human use unreconciled. 1883 Cent. Mag. Nov. 47/1 The lofty hedge is becrimsoned with savage roses, in whose degenerate petals still linger traces of former high cultivation. 1914 C. W. Earle & E. Case Pot-pourri mixed by Two 176 Americans call wild trees savage trees. 1921 D. H. Lawrence in Dial Nov. 592 This Sunday morning, seeing the frost among the tangled, still savage bushes of Sardinia, my soul thrilled again. β. 1599 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 202 A place..which yeeldeth balme in great plenty, but saluage, wilde, and without vertue.?1655 R. Baron Mirza 181 Caucasus..is uninhabited, producing little but salvage Trees, and poysonous herbs.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 72 Thus the salvage Cherry grows. View more context for this quotation †c. Of decoration: rustic, imitating natural vegetation. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > [adjective] > specific style Moorish1434 savage1548 damaskeen1551 grotesque1603 Mogul1617 pierced1756 baroque1765 rocaille1776 rococo1830 plateresque1845 Alhambresque1848 François Premier1850 Mudéjar1865 serio-grotesque1873 famille verte1876 barocco1877 rococoesque1885 famille rose1893 famille noire1898 Ch'ien Lung1901 Marie Antoinette1909 Mosan1910 famille jaune1923 Romanizing1936 quatre-couleur1959 penworked1965 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clvi^v The Jawe peces..were karued with Vinettes and trailes of sauage worke. 3. a. Of a person: living in a wild state; belonging to a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized. Of a tribe, society, region, etc.: consisting or composed of people regarded as primitive and uncivilized.Now usually historical or offensive: see note at sense B. 3a. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [adjective] > specifically of persons savage?1473 uncivil1553 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [adjective] wilda1300 bestiala1398 wilderna1400 savagine?a1439 barbaric1490 rudea1530 barbar1535 barbarous1538 pagan1550 uncivil1553 Scythical1559 raw?1573 savaged1583 incivil1586 savage1589 barbarian1591 uncivilized1607 negerous1609 mountainous1613 ruvid1632 ruvidous1632 barbarious1633 incivilizeda1645 alabandical1656 inhumanea1680 tramontane1740 semi-barbarous1798 irreclaimed1814 semi-savage1833 semiferine1854 warrigal1855 sloven1856 semi-barbaric1864 pre-civilized1876 wild and woolly1884 jungle1908 medieval1917 jungli1920 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [adjective] > relating to uncivilized people uncivil1553 savage1589 α. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 29 Calisto..was euyl clothid and half wilde and sauage. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxiii. 436 The sauage man..was Merlin of Northumberlande. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. iii. 4 He brought the rude and sauage people to a more ciuill and orderly life. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 220 Like a rude and sauadge man of Inde. View more context for this quotation 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 27 Taking for their leader the Earle of Desmond and others, as Oneale, and some other of the sauage Irish. 1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 196 The Britains were for the most part an abject savage people. 1757 T. Gray Ode I ii. ii, in Odes 8 She [sc. the Muse] deigns to hear the savage Youth repeat, In loose numbers wildly sweet Their feather-cinctured Chiefs and dusky Loves. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxx. 170 The barriers, which had so long separated the savage and the civilised nations of the earth. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 109 I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 73 The south..was, through its neighbourhood and intercourse with Gaul, somewhat less savage than the rest of the island. 1906 A. Machen House of Souls 7 The enemies of the cruel Star Chamber caused the savage Indian to disappear from the land. 1951 H. Arendt Burden of our Time ii. vi. 161 The honesty and simplicity of savage and uncivilized peoples were opposed to the sophistication and frivolity of culture. 1995 Guardian 27 Oct. (Friday Review section) 5/1 Since returning from Rwanda, I have heard many smug voices decrying the savage Africans and their ‘lost’ continent. 2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Feb. 33/2 This expansionism was explained in terms similar to those used by other colonial powers: trade, security, the imperative of ‘civilizing’ savage tribes. β. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 15 Antisthenes..had to his father a citezen of Athenes, but to his mother a woman of a barbarous or saluage countree.1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xiii. §7. 435 In these times Greece was very saluage, the inhabitants being often chaced from place to place, by the captaines of greater Tribes.1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 20 The more than Brutality of some savage and barbarous Nations.1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 271 From a Salvage Prince rendred himself a tame Follower of the Patriarch St. Gregory. †b. Remote from society; solitary, isolated. Obsolete.In some quots. difficult to distinguish from sense A. 3a. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective] onlyOE alonec1175 solitarya1340 lone1377 ledelessc1400 fellowless?c1425 savage1535 neighbourless1550 private1599 discompanied1601 unattended1603 disaccompanied1605 lonelya1616 marrowless?1635 companionless1644 unneighboured1657 unaccompanied1709 unescorted1774 uncompanioned1822 comradeless1891 1535 R. Copland tr. Complaynt of them that be to soone Maryed sig. A^v Better it were to be a man sauage Than to be take in that ylke lase. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1085 O might I here In solitude live savage, in some glade Obscur'd. View more context for this quotation 1680 T. Otway Orphan ii. 21 I, methinks, am Salvage and forlorn, Thy Presence only 'tis, can make me blest. c. Of, relating to, or characteristic of primitive peoples. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > [adjective] heathenic1554 savage1559 heathnical1583 ethnical1818 ethnic1841 multi-ethnic1941 mono-ethnic1968 α. 1559 W. Bavand tr. J. Ferrarius Common Weale iv. ii. f. 59^v The Poetes were wonte to call menne into townes from their wilde and sauage life. ?1590–1 J. Burel Discription Queens Entry Edinb. in Poems sig. L4^v Hir Grace past to ane vther pairt: Quhair sche, beheld sum..A coutert, in ane sauadge sort. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. vii. §3. 102 The first people which after the generall floud inhabited Italie, were the Camesenes;..which people liued altogether a sauage life. 1681 Bp. S. Parker Demonstr. Divine Authority i. 77 The farther off they keep from this savage State, the nearer do they approach to the Contentment and Tranquility of their Lives. 1727 Missionalia 66 The Humanizing of them [sc. American Indians], and Reducing them from a Savage, to a Civil Way of Life. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. liii. 494 The Grecian princess was torn from the palace of her fathers, and condemned to a savage reign and an hopeless exile on the banks of the Borysthenes. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 30 Nov. 231 The civilized man gives up those stimulants of hope and fear which constitute the chief charm of the savage life. 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. iv. 176 This is the purely savage state; and it is the state in which military glory is most esteemed, and military men most respected. 1899 R. C. Temple Univ. Gram. 24 The ‘savage’ nature of the languages comes out even more clearly if we apply the theory in another way. 1934 G. Greene It's a Battlefield i. 1 Young men had certain savage qualities; they moved quickly; they sometimes carried poisoned weapons. 1971 N. Sherry Conrad's Western World xi. 100 His intimate knowledge of the savage customs. 1990 Crafts Sept. 22/1 Images of African Art..challenges the established view of the relationship between ‘savage’ art and Modernism. β. 1612 W. Symonds Proc. Eng. Colonie Virginia xii. 98 in J. Smith Map of Virginia The rest he seated gallantlie at Powhatan, in their Salvage fort they built.1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. viii. §5. 140 There is no man so impious, as to beleeue that Noah..could..set vp or deuise any Heathen saluage, or idolatrous adoration.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 427 Like Hercules himself, his Son appears, In Salvage Pomp a Lyon's Hide he wears. II. In extended use with reference to behaviour, disposition, or character. †4. a. Indomitable, intrepid, valiant. Obsolete.In quot. c1330 as an epithet with a proper name. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > bravery or boldness > stout-heartedness > [adjective] savagec1330 well-heartedc1485 stout-hearted1552 steel-hearted1571 intrepid1697 skookum1847 aggro1985 c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 8270 Þe v was Dedinet þe saueage. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4022 But sone sauage men þat seten in þe halle henten hastili in honde what þei haue miȝt,..to wende him [sc. the werwolf] after wiȝtli to quelle. a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) l. 485 An hardy knyght, stout and savage, Hent a schafft with gret rage. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 813 With v thowsand welle garnest and sawage. b. Reckless, ungovernable. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [adjective] > rash or reckless > specifically of actions, feelings, etc. recklessOE racklec1405 savagec1425 rash1533 hot-brained1556 rashful1567 blindfold1593 lavish1600 wretchless1607 blind1615 hand over head1682 wild goose1770 plunging1798 wild cat1890 (like a) bull at a (five-barred) gate1896 c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 4759 I praye the, my moder dere..That thow be wyse and not sauage; Ȝif the not to outrage! a1500 Bernardus de Cura (1870) l. 300 A mane..of wyne þat has vsage Ande habundance and syne is nocht saffage Th[r]ow mychtiness and confort of þe wyne At temporance bydis and sobyr syne. 5. a. Of a person, an action, etc.: cruel, brutal, violent. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective] grimlyc893 retheeOE grim971 bitterOE bremec1175 grillc1175 grimfula1240 cruel1297 sturdy1297 fiercea1300 fellc1300 boistousa1387 felonousc1386 savagea1393 bestiala1398 bremelya1400 felona1400 hetera1400 cursedc1400 wicked14.. vengeablec1430 wolvishc1430 unnatural?1473 inhuman1481 brutisha1513 cruent1524 felonish1530 mannish1530 abominate1531 lionish1549 boarish?1550 truculent?c1550 unhumanc1550 lion-like1556 beastly1558 orped1567 raw?1573 tigerish?1573 unmanlike1579 boisterous1581 savaged1583 tiger-like1587 yond1590 truculental1593 savage wild1595 tigerous1597 inhumane1598 Neronian1598 immane1599 Phalarical1602 ungentle1603 feral1604 savagious1605 fierceful1607 Dionysian1608 wolvy1611 Hunnish1625 lionly1631 tigerly1633 savage-hearted1639 brutal1641 feroce1641 ferocious1646 asperous1650 ferousa1652 wolfish1674 tiger1763 savage-fierce1770 Tartar1809 Tartarly1821 Neroic1851 tigery1859 Neronic1864 unmannish1867 inhumanitarian1947 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [adjective] wrothc893 retheeOE hateleOE grim971 hardOE cruel1297 despitousc1374 savagea1393 fadea1400 hetera1400 keen?c1425 vengeablec1430 despiteful1488 unmanfula1500 despiteous?1510 cruent1524 felonish1530 Herodian1581 felly1583 savaged1583 Neronian1598 savagious1605 Dionysian1608 black-blooded1771 atrocious1772 Neroic1851 Neronic1864 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > rough rudea1375 savagea1393 rougha1398 roid?c1425 brutisha1513 brash1868 roughneck1906 to treat 'em rough1962 α. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. v. l. 95 Orestes cachit in furyus rage For cryme of his moderis slauchtir and savage In lufe hait byrnyng for his spows byreft..Set on this Pirrus. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 5 Of a cruell, wicked, and sauage pleasure. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iv. 253 [Murderer.] Relent, tis cowardly and womanish. Cla. Not to relent, is beastly, sauage, diuelish. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. ii. 92 What shall I say to thee Lord Scroope, thou cruell, Ingratefull, sauage, and inhumane Creature? View more context for this quotation 1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxii. 296 All savage punishment heretofore used, either have been by Act of Parliament repealed, or obsoleted by disuse. 1749 T. Smollett Regicide i. i. 3 A Wretch Of Soul more savage breathes not vital Air. 1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless IV. vii. 63 His savage treatment of her beloved squirrel. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family IV. 190 It would be downright savage to leave Lady Miramont now. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) ix. 77 He had a savage pleasure in making the poor wretches [sc. his creditors] wait. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxiv. 419 The troops were savage, and killed every man that they overtook. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxxvii. 401 His drunkenness was savage and morose. 1962 O. Manning Spoilt City iv. xxii. 243 The blows were given with savage determination. 1993 W. A. McDougall Let Sea make Noise 27 The crown tried to halt their savage treatment of Indian laborers. β. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 1699 (MED) If ye wiste what I am And out of what lignage I cam, Ye wolde noght be so salvage.1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark v. f. xxxvi^v Yet is there none so fierse and saluage crueltie that we ought to despaire of.1637 W. Saltonstall tr. Eusebius Life Constantine 137 Hee hath changed all mansutude and graciousnesse with salvage fury and cruelty.1694 J. Tillotson Serm. Several Occasions IV. xii. 432 With what a salvage and murderous disposition they will flie at one another's Reputation and tear it in pieces.1746 W. Collins Odes 21 I see recoil his sable steeds, That bore Him swift to Salvage Deeds. b. colloquial. In predicative use. Of a person: enraged, angry, furious. Also: using angry language. Cf. to cut up savage at cut v. Phrasal verbs. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > furiously angry grim971 aweddeOE woodlyc1000 anburstc1275 woodc1275 aburstc1300 eagerc1325 brotheful1330 brothely1330 furiousc1374 wroth as (the) wind1377 throc1380 fella1382 wrothlya1400 grindelc1400 raginga1425 furibund1490 bremit1535 outraging1567 fulminant?1578 wood-like1578 horn-mad1579 snuff1582 woodful1582 maddeda1586 rageful1585 furibundal1593 gary1609 fierce1611 wild1653 infuriate1667 hopping mad1675 maddened1735 sulphureous1751 savage1789 infuriated1796 bouncing mad1834 frenzy1859 furyinga1861 ropeable1870 furied1878 fulminous1886 livid1888 fit to be tied1894 hopping1894 fighting mad1896 tamping mad1946 up the wall1951 ravers1967 the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [adjective] > of speech: angry > angry in speech savage1859 1789 Loiterer 21 Feb. 15 Saw he was going to be savage, so kicked him down stairs to prevent his being impertinent. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 51 Don't let Emmy know that we have told you, else she'll be savage with us. 1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing v. 35 If he [sc. a sick person] can speak without being savage..he is exercising self-control. 1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 3 Come, Jasper, you need not look so savage. 1913 ‘G. A. Birmingham’ Gen. John Regan ix. 135 ‘Devil such a temper I ever saw any woman in, and I've seen some in my day.’ ‘I know she'd be a bit savage. I hoped you wouldn't have met her.’ 1969 A. Dixon in P. A. Smith Folklore Austral. Railwaymen 106 Driver Dunning was very touchy at any time but what with him being way out on the track on a Saturday and him being a racing man he was savage. 6. a. Of a natural force, appetite, disease, etc.: fierce, harsh; uncontrolled, destructive. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adjective] retheeOE hotOE strongOE woodlyc1000 un-i-rideOE stoura1122 brathc1175 unridec1175 unrudec1225 starklyc1275 toughc1275 wood1297 ragec1330 unrekena1350 biga1375 furialc1386 outrageousc1390 savagea1393 violenta1393 bremelya1400 snarta1400 wrothlya1400 fightingc1400 runishc1400 dour?a1425 derfc1440 churlousa1450 roida1450 fervent1465 churlish1477 orgulous1483 felona1500 brathfula1522 brathlya1525 fanatic1533 furious1535 boisterous1544 blusterous1548 ungentle1551 sore1563 full-mouthed1594 savage wild1595 Herculean1602 shrill1608 robustious1612 efferous1614 thundering1618 churly1620 ferocient1655 turbulent1656 efferate1684 knock-me-down1760 haggard-wild1786 ensanguined1806 rammish1807 fulminatory1820 riproarious1830 natural1832 survigrous1835 sabre-toothed1849 cataclysmal1861 thunderous1874 fierce1912 cataractal1926 the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adjective] > specifically of natural agencies starkeOE steer13.. savagea1393 wightc1400 violentc1425 rageousc1450 bolda1522 masterfula1522 shouldering1747 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 4112 For as the wilde wode rage Of wyndes makth the See salvage, And that was calm bringth into wawe. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2262 Bot vertu set in the corage, Ther mai no world be so salvage, Which mihte it take and don aweie, Til whanne that the bodi deie. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 4084 Darrie hete..Remuen his tentes..And setten hem bisides Estrage, A colde water and a sauage. a1605 (c1422) T. Hoccleve Complaint (Durh.) l. 86 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 98 All-thowghe from hym his siknesse savage with-drawne and passyd..for a tyme be, Resorte it wole. 1637 J. Milton Comus 13 Within the direfull graspe Of Savage hunger, or of Savage heat? 1796 F. Burney Camilla II. iii. xiii. 259 What savage heat! I wish the weather had a little feeling! 1818 P. B. Shelley tr. Homer To Castor & Pollux 9 When wintry tempests o'er the savage sea Are raging. 1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 20 So that the savage winds hung mute around. 1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 362 It would have been alike impossible to see or read [the burial service] in such a fierce, savage stour. 1917 Everybody's Mag. Aug. 164/2 He was convalescent now, after the savage illness that had held him bound through most of the winter. 1972 Observer 23 Apr. (Colour Suppl.) 35/4 Fiennes and Stanley Cribbett skeeter through the savage waters of the Bridge River rapids. 1992 Harrowsmith Oct. 74/1 The rare but savage northwesterlies roaring out of the glaciered mountains. 2013 L. Stott Sc. Hist. in Verse 369 Soutar..contracted a savage illness in 1930 that meant he became bedridden for the remaining 13 years of his life. b. Of an animal, its behaviour, etc.: ferocious, fierce, vicious. Cf. sense A. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by nature > [adjective] > wild or vicious wildc725 wrothOE keenOE ramagec1300 fell?c1335 furiousc1374 fierce1377 ramageousa1398 eagerc1405 savage1447 naughtyc1460 criminal1477 ill1480 shrewd1509 mankind1519 roidc1540 mad1565 horn-mad1579 fierceful1607 man-keen1607 indomite1617 fellish1638 ferocious1646 ferousa1652 ferinea1676 kwaai1827 skelm1827 α. 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 8861 (MED) Tweyn hors of hys wex ful sauage And gunne to nehyn in here fers rage. a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) l. 3870 Grekys wenyng that were ȝong of age, That this Tygre hadde be sauage, And Cruelly besettyng al the place Round aboute. 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell sig. Eii^v/1 He wan at length And slew gerione with thre bodys in one with myghty corrage A dauntid the rage Of a lyon sauage. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 5 The wild sauage sowe of Crommyon, otherwise surnamed Phæa. 1611 Bible (King James) Wisd. xvii. 19 A roaring voice of most sauage wilde beasts. View more context for this quotation 1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §xxvii Euen the Sauagest Beasts are made quiet and docible, with want of food, and rest. 1707 J. Addison Rosamond i. iv. 11 What savage Tiger would not pity A Damsel so distress'd and pretty! 1790 R. Carmichael Poems 71 You, all foaming like a savage bear, Attempt with blust'ring cries to move the fair. 1820 W. Scott Let. 25 Jan. (1934) VI. 127 For all the kind [of dogs] are savage at night. 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 17 The Killer Whales are known the world over by their destructive and savage habits. 1922 W. T. Hornaday Minds & Manners Wild Animals ix. 91 If we attempted to touch the infant, the mother instantly became savage and dangerous. 1952 Life 21 July 104/2 A chorus of grunts and savage growls went up from the pride. 1990 Evening Standard 6 Mar. 15/1 Dog breeders are mating what the RSPCA describe as the world's most savage dog. β. 1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes sig. h.j^v Were there euer beastes so saluage, or cruel, to deuour the dam?1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 148 Wherein Iob alludeth to ravenous and salvadge beasts.1696 N. Tate & N. Brady New Version Psalms of David vii. 2 Lest, like a salvage Lion, he My helpless Soul devour. 7. a. Of movement, noise, demeanour, etc.: wild, uncontrolled, unrestrained; rough, crude. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [adjective] > affected by violent emotion woodc900 reighOE mada1350 furiousc1374 raginga1425 savagea1450 rageous1486 frenetic?c1550 frantic1561 frenetical1588 impotent1596 transported1600 violent1601 turbulent1609 dementing1729 enfrenzied1823 wild1868 haywire1934 wigged-out1977 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > completely unchecked unbridledc1374 untempered1377 bridleless?1406 unrepressed?a1425 untemperatea1425 savagea1450 unchecked1469 undaunted1513 uncontrolleda1535 reinless1566 unrestrained1578 ineffrenate1581 unbitteda1586 check-free1598 uncurbed1600 checkless1604 unbounded1608 uncontained?1611 dis'chained1615 ungoverneda1616 unstanched1621 unsneaped1647 incontrolled1650 controlless1657 irregulated1664 curbless1813 do-as-you-please1845 disenchaineda1849 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective] > making harsh or discordant sound hoarsec1369 ganglinga1398 roughlyc1400 rauk?a1425 rustyc1430 hask?1440 savagea1450 raw1474 hoar?a1505 harsh1530 untunable1545 jarring1552 jarry1582 barking1589 absonant1600 wrangling1608 raucous1615 asper1626 streperous1637 scrannel1638 caterwaulinga1652 unmelodious1665 jangling1667 latrant1702 untuneful1709 raucid1730 unharmonious1742 unmelodized1771 unmelodic1823 raucal1826 rauque1845 raspish1847 serratic1859 jangled1874 jangly1891 amelodic1937 a1450 (?c1430) J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree (Huntington) (1931) l. 114 (MED) I haue not lerned here-a-forne to daunce No daunce in sothe of fotynge so sauage. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. i. 61 But you are more intemperate in your blood, Than Venus, or those pampred animalls, That rage in sauage sensualitie. View more context for this quotation 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 125 The sauage strangenesse he puts on. View more context for this quotation 1655 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Artamenes IV. vii. iii. 189 Her reputation is high, though her vertue be neither salvage nor austere; but on the contrary sweet and sociable. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 36 The Race Of that wilde Rout that tore the Thracian Bard In Rhodope,..till the savage clamor dround Both Harp and Voice. View more context for this quotation 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 233 Oh to the club, the scene of savage joys, The school of coarse good fellowship and noise. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 325 Delights which who would leave..For all the savage din of the swift pack, And clamours of the field? a1822 P. B. Shelley Triumph of Life in Posthumous Poems (1824) 79 The wild dance maddens in the van, and those Who lead it..without repose Mix with each other in tempestuous measure To savage music, wilder as it grows. 1888 Harper's Mag. Jan. 226/2 ‘Gord! Gord! honey,’ she said, tossing her blue checked apron up and down with wild, savage gestures of dismay and grief. 1946 A. Koestler Thieves in Night viii. 61 [They] had formed the first ring of the horra, the stamping and swaying round-dance, a savage ring-polka. 1989 Dance Nov. 58/2 A savage scale and energy lies at the core of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. 2007 Uncut Feb. 80/1 Tiresome bleepery..savage breakbeats..and sci-fi cheese. b. Of colour: harsh, crude, bright. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > garish violenta1522 garisha1568 savage1706 raw1763 criard1840 tranchant1841 flagrant1858 blaring1866 criant1876 screamy1882 screaming1883 raucous1919 shrieking1958 shrill1973 1706 J. Savage tr. R. de Piles Art of Painting 186 He tam'd the fierceness of his Colours, which were too Salvage. 1859 Hist. Mag. (U.S.) Feb. 86/1 We have Little Eyes, Canonchet, Totoson, Tuspaquin, cut on wood, and painted, very appropriately, in most savage colors—fierce looking fellows. 1897 J. Ward Hist. Ornament II. vii. 354 The work of the ninth century was characterized by exceedingly bad drawing and savage colouring. 1933 B. Willoughby Alaskans All 55 An Avernian Caldron, lined with volcanic hues, savage reds, and orange and pink, streaked with black and snow. 2011 R. King Defiant Spirits ii. iii. 192 Those who regarded landscapes as a pictorial balm for weary eyes and shattered nerves were shocked by the savage colours and tentacular lines of the Fauves. 8. Of a judgement, criticism, imposition, etc.: extremely or excessively severe in intent or effect; drastic, harsh. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > [adjective] > specifically of actions or utterances stern?c1225 sore1526 severe1561 savage1821 acidic1936 1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais Pref. 4 The savage criticism on his [sc. Keats'] Endymion, which appeared in the Quarterly Review, produced the most violent effect on his susceptible mind. 1844 Southern Literary Messenger 10 620 The savage criticism of Gifford, and the coarse personalities of Wilson were poured on him. a1854 J. Wilson Convict in Poet. Wks. (1858) 194 Prisoner: They will drive me past my own door to the scaffold? Friend: Such is the savage sentence. 1940 S. J. Perelman Let. 12 May in Sel. Lett. (1987) 30 His review of Strictly From Hunger was so savage. 1976 Economist 24 July 73/1 The savage cuts in holiday travel and emigration allowances imposed in last week's Rhodesian budget. 1984 N.Y. Times 22 July ii. 19/2 If you exceed the..speed limit on the East German autobahn system..you can expect a savage fine. 2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 1 May 35/3 Gessen's humor is persistently Seinfeldian, avoiding the excesses of savage comedy or satire. B. n.¹ 1. †a. A wild or untamed animal. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by nature > [noun] > wild animal wild deerc825 wildc1275 Satanasc1300 wild beastc1325 unbeasta1400 savage?a1425 feral1639 man-keen1652 yelper1823 wildling1841 tiger1859 rogue1872 ferine1895 wilding1897 ?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1996) I. l. 1710 Qwat mane so dose slike vttrage, Enters to sclo þe kynges salvagh,..Lyffe sall he lose, lyme, or be schent. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. B.ii^v From the rockes toppe then [sic] dryuen sauage rose. ?1609 G. Chapman tr. Homer Twelue Bks. Iliads v. 70 And made him able with his Dart, infalliblie to reach All sorts of subtlest sauages, which many a woddie hill Bred for him. 1682 T. Southerne Loyal Brother iv. i. 42 What unfrequented Coast am I thrown on, Naked, and helpless, to be made a prey To the next coming salvage of the field? 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 11. ⁋12 The suspicion and solicitude of a man that plays with a tame tiger, always under a necessity of watching the moment in which the capricious savage shall begin to growl. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives I. 9 Crommyon was infested by a wild sow named Phæa... This savage he [sc. Theseus]..killed. 1831 T. B. Macaulay Hampden in Ess. ⁋14 The man who, in a Spanish bull-fight, goads the torpid savage to fury, by shaking a red rag in the air. 1882 St. Nicholas Feb. 318/2 Nor do mere ‘food and attendance’ include all the large items of a quadruped savage's board bill. b. A vicious horse. Cf. note at savage v. 3b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [noun] > vicious or bad-tempered jadec1386 miller1825 savage1859 1859 Illustr. London News 29 Jan. 17/3 Mr. Rarey has given four ‘demonstrations’.., and handled nine horses, one of them a very wicked pieball mare, and the grey savage par excellence of the army. 1869 ‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. vi His experience of similar animals led him to house a donkey in the same box with Warrener, with whom the savage soon fraternised, and displayed corresponding improvement in his temper. 1888 W. Day Horse 419 We also have in Paradox a modern savage, like his grey prototype. 1937 C. E. Perkins Pinto Horse vi. 35 Among the older gelding was a flea-bitten, much branded grey savage. †2. Savageness, ferocity. Obsolete.Only recorded in Skelton, in collocation with furious. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] rethenesseOE crueltyc1230 cruelnessa1400 savagenessa1400 cruelc1440 crudelity1483 savagec1487 savagerya1616 reluctationa1625 fellness1678 heartlessness1891 c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iii. 180 He had..like a myghty strong lion in his furious savage slayen..his mortall ennemyes. c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 258 There is a wilde bull that passeth and excedeth this beste in furious savaige. 3. a. A person living in a wild state; a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized. Cf. noble savage n.Now usually avoided as offensive, except in historical reference to the language or attitudes of the past. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun] > uncivilized person wild mana1400 woodwose?a1400 savaginec1450 woodward1488 savagea1544 woodman1601 barbarian1604 woodist1613 wilding1621 brutigenist1631 catamountaina1640 Caliban1678 semi-barbarian1692 Hottentot1710 semi-savage1807 pagan1879 α. 1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya ii. 11 Y^e Sauages heard y^e shot of one of our caliuers. 1585 R. Lane Let. 12 Aug. in Trans. & Coll. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. (1860) 4 10 I leave to certyfye your honor of what lyekelyhuddes founde, or what the savvages reporte of better matters. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 200 Vouchsafe to shew the sunshine of your face, That we (like sauages) may worship it. View more context for this quotation 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 292 Some scattering Arabs, sold vs Water... Two of which Sauages our Captayne hyred, to guide vs. 1658 R. Flecknoe Enigmaticall Characters 67 Would tame fierce Lions, and civilize barbarousest Savages. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 242 Upon this my Savage..made a Motion to me to lend him my Sword. 1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music iii. 29 The Iroquois, Hurons, and some less considerable Tribes, are free and independent Savages. 1804 Sydney Gaz. 17 June 2 At length came up with forty or fifty of the hostile savages, who had a quantity of property of which they had stripped the settlers. 1868 Galaxy Mar. 370 The rude agricultural implements of an African savage. 1907 G. Tyrrell Oil & Wine 24 To the savage every stranger is therefore an enemy. 1975 J. Clavell Shōgun (1980) xix. 319 You can't treat Japan like an Inca protectorate peopled with jungle savages who have neither history not culture. 1992 Billboard 28 Nov. 85/2 [He] reportedly referred to new Colorado senator Ben Night Horse Campbell as an ‘injun’ and called Native Americans ‘savages’. 2001 B. Stanley Christian Missions & Enlightenment viii. 179 No preparatory process of civilization was necessary before ‘savages’ could respond to the gospel. β. a1544 R. Barlow tr. M. Fernández de Enciso Brief Summe Geogr. (1932) 50 The people [sc. the Irish]..liveth by stelyng and robbyng as sylvages which lieth abrode in forests and marrys groundes in litle towres.1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia ii. i. 3 Wee traded with the Salvages at Dominica.a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 58 Doe you put trickes vpon's with Saluages, and Men of Inde? View more context for this quotation1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. ii. 156 Seeing we are civilized English men, let us not be naked Salvages in our talk.1698 E. Ward Trip to Jamaica (ed. 3) 10 The next Morning the Salvages Man'd out a Fleet of their Deal Skimming-dishes.1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 40 Among Strangers and Salvages. b. A cruel or brutal person; (also) a person who is coarse, rough, or uncouth. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > savage person > [noun] wolfa900 liona1225 beastc1225 wild manc1290 tiger?a1513 Turk1536 club-fist1575 scourgemutton1581 wolver1593 vulture1605 savage1609 inhuman1653 brutal1655 Tartar1669 hyena1671 dragoon1712 Huna1744 panther1822 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > person wolfa900 cruelc1420 Turk1536 scourgemutton1581 savage1609 hell-kitea1616 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [noun] > uncultured person runt1602 home-bred1609 pork1645 Huna1744 savage1762 heathen1817 Philistine1825 stringy-bark1833 roughneck1834 yahoo1861 yapc1894 lowbrow1901 meatball1937 primitive1967 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. iii. 51 Hect. Fie sauage, fie. Troy. Hector then 'tis warres. View more context for this quotation 1696 T. Comber Disc. Offices 114 But who would imagine, that our Christned Albion should breed such Salvages? 1706 Ld. Godolphin Let. 22 Oct. in H. L. Snyder Marlborough–Godolphin Corr. (1975) II. 720 Some measures ought to be conceived for putting a stop to these savages. 1762 G. Colman Musical Lady ii. i. 20 Sophy. Oh—the people here are all downright Goths. Mask. Absolute savages—an English catch, a Scotch jigg, and an Irish howl are all their ideas of harmony. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 422 Witness the patient ox,..Driv'n to the slaughter..while the savage at his heels Laughs at the frantic suff'rer's fury. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. i. iii. 15 However,..the young savages at Burnsley Vicarage had caught a Tartar. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. 8/1 Schoolboys..are not such savages as in the old days. 1939 C. Seiler Our Girls i. 7 He's so loud and rough, a perfect little savage. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. 18/1 Animals kill only in self-defense or for food... The ‘savages’ in our cities do it for ‘kicks’. 2008 J. P. Hunt Goodbye Sister Disco xxxi. 234 I can beg for my life, beg for it from savages who shot bullets into poor Tom like he was a large bag of cooking rice. 4. a. In outdoor shows, pageants, masques, etc.: a person dressed in greenery, representing a wild man of the woods; = savage man n. 1. Cf. green man n. 1a. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > persons and characters > [noun] savage?1578 ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 20 This Sauage for the more submission brake his tree a sunder. 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote xx. 129 Before them came a woodden Castle, which was shot at by two Sauages clad in Iuie and Canuas, died in greene, so to the life, that they had well-nigh frighted Sancho. 1843 Penny Mag. 18 Nov. 445/1 Two ‘woodmen’, or savages, carried clubs and hurled squibs to clear the way for the procession. 1862 G. J. Whyte-Melville Queen's Maries I. xiv. 193 The masque will only be six against six as usual,..six Savages and six Amazons. 1905 E. E. Stoll John Webster iii. 150 Country-men, milk-maids, savages, or the like. 2004 G. J. Buelow Hist. Baroque Music xi. 356 Following dances for fairies and anti-masque savages (or ‘green men’, according to the score for the first production), the masque takes a sudden turn to low comedy. b. Heraldry. A figure of a savage or wild man, typically represented as a naked man wreathed with greenery and depicted as a supporter of a coat of arms; = savage man n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of human or divine beings > [noun] > savage woodwose1355 woodward1488 savage mana1656 savage1673 woodman1780 1673 in W. Fraser Chiefs of Grant (1883) III. 248 For his crest a burning hill supported be two savadges or naked men, proper. 1680 G. Mackenzie Observ. Laws & Customs of Nations viii. 53 The Royal Arms of Scotland: supported on the..sinister, by a Savage or Wild-man proper. 1785 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 565/1 Two savages, wreathed about the head and middle with laurel, holding branches of trees in their hands, all proper. 1793 Z. Cozens Tour through Isle of Thanet iii. 264 Supporters, dexter, a horse rampant; sinister, a savage, holding in his right hand a spear, or dart point downwards. 1824 Debrett's Baronetage Eng. (ed. 5) II. 1028 A savage's head, affrontée, proper, between two branches of laurel. 1887 E. Farrer Church Heraldry Norfolk I. 200 Beneath, on a small shield supported by two savages, Argent, a bordure gules. 1920 H. Lee Hist. Clan Donald ix. 137 Dexter, a savage wreathed about the temples and loins with ivy. 2006 B. A. McAndrew Scotland's Hist. Heraldry vii. 133 Two hairy savages are the supporters. †c. At the church of St Dunstan in the West, London: either of two figures depicted wearing loincloths and bearing clubs which strike the bells of the clock. Obsolete.Since the 19th cent. the figures have been identified with the giants Gog and Magog. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of nut1428 peise1428 plumbc1450 Jack1498 clockwork1516 larum1542 Jack of the clockhouse1563 watch-wheel1568 work1570 plummeta1578 Jack of the clock1581 snail-cam1591 snail-work1591 pointer1596 quarter jack1604 mainspring1605 winder1606 notch-wheel1611 fusee1622 count-wheel1647 jack-wheel1647 frame1658 arbor1659 balance1660 fuse1674 hour-figure1675 stop1675 pallet1676 regulator1676 cock1678 movement1678 detent1688 savage1690 clock1696 pinwheel1696 starred wheel1696 swing-wheel1696 warning-wheel1696 watch1696 watch-part1696 hoop-wheel1704 hour-wheel1704 snail1714 step-wheel1714 tide-work1739 train1751 crutch1753 cannon pinion1764 rising board1769 remontoire1774 escapement1779 clock jack1784 locking plate1786 scapement1789 motion work1795 anchor escapement1798 scape1798 star-wheel1798 recoil escapement1800 recoiling pallet1801 recoiling scapement1801 cannon1802 hammer-tail1805 recoiling escapement1805 bottle jack1810 renovating spring1812 quarter-boy1815 pin tooth1817 solar wheel1819 impulse-teeth1825 pendulum wheel1825 pallet arbor1826 rewinder1826 rack hook1829 snail-wheel1831 quarter bell1832 tow1834 star pulley1836 watch train1838 clock train1843 raising-piece1843 wheelwork1843 gravity escapement1850 jumper1850 vertical escapement1850 time train1853 pin pallet1860 spade1862 dead well1867 stop-work1869 ringer1873 strike-or-silent1875 warning-piece1875 guard-pin1879 pendulum cock1881 warning-lever1881 beat-pin1883 fusee-piece1884 fusee-snail1884 shutter1884 tourbillion1884 tumbler1884 virgule1884 foliot1899 grasshopper1899 grasshopper escapement1899 trunk1899 pin lever1908 clock spring1933 1690 T. D'Urfey Collin's Walk ii. 47 Two Savages arm'd with Battoons, On Bells, make here alternate Sounds. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) I. iii. xii. 276/2 On the side of the Church, in a handsome Frame of Architecture, are placed, in a standing Posture, two Savages, or Hercules, with Clubs erect; which quarterly strike on two Bells hanging there. 1767 W. Kenrick Widow'd Wife iii. i. 38 Sure the grim savages at St. Dunstan's still stand centinel, to strike the hours on the clock! 1803 J. P. Malcolm Londinium Redivivum III. 461 Their clock and savages, whose fascinating movements attract twenty pair of eyes every quarter of an hour. 1865 Law Times 9 Sept. 541/3 We have stood near the Temple gateway to see the old sooty bronze savages lift their clubs against the bell of St. Dunstan. Compounds a. Complementary, parasynthetic, etc. savage-hearted adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective] grimlyc893 retheeOE grim971 bitterOE bremec1175 grillc1175 grimfula1240 cruel1297 sturdy1297 fiercea1300 fellc1300 boistousa1387 felonousc1386 savagea1393 bestiala1398 bremelya1400 felona1400 hetera1400 cursedc1400 wicked14.. vengeablec1430 wolvishc1430 unnatural?1473 inhuman1481 brutisha1513 cruent1524 felonish1530 mannish1530 abominate1531 lionish1549 boarish?1550 truculent?c1550 unhumanc1550 lion-like1556 beastly1558 orped1567 raw?1573 tigerish?1573 unmanlike1579 boisterous1581 savaged1583 tiger-like1587 yond1590 truculental1593 savage wild1595 tigerous1597 inhumane1598 Neronian1598 immane1599 Phalarical1602 ungentle1603 feral1604 savagious1605 fierceful1607 Dionysian1608 wolvy1611 Hunnish1625 lionly1631 tigerly1633 savage-hearted1639 brutal1641 feroce1641 ferocious1646 asperous1650 ferousa1652 wolfish1674 tiger1763 savage-fierce1770 Tartar1809 Tartarly1821 Neroic1851 tigery1859 Neronic1864 unmannish1867 inhumanitarian1947 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [adjective] > fierce of mind or spirit tiger-hearted1597 tiger-passioned1597 savage-hearted1639 1639 W. Lower Phaenix in her Flames iv. sig. H2^v Vnkinde Amandus, More salvage hearted then the boy Adonis. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xxvii. 223 O thou savage-hearted monster! What work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance! 1819 A. Grant Let. 23 Jan. in Mem. & Corr. (1844) II. 223 His savage-hearted prototype. 1921 Rep. 44th Ann. Meeting Amer. Bar Assoc. 285 14,000 savage-hearted men and women who have taken the lives of their fellows. 2010 S. Fletcher Corrag iii. ii. 159 Their chief is savage-hearted, even to Highlanders. savage looking adj. ΚΠ 1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor lxxxii. 273 The savage-looking shepherds called off and chid their dogs. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xliv. 398 He..glared at him with savage-looking eyes. 1954 F. C. Lane All about Insect World 24 Perhaps the most savage looking [moth] is the hickory horned devil. 1998 A. Thorpe Pieces of Light (1999) i. 3 They were rather savage looking, with big white teeth and red gums. savage spoken adj. now rare ΚΠ 1845 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. May 462/2 We meet occasionally with some desperately savage spoken fellows, who are, at the bottom, the very Sydneys of courtesy and kindness. 1894 Outing 24 230/1 A savage-spoken old Scotch woman. 1929 N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 542/1 A carelessly dressed, savage spoken and dynamic rebel. b. Appositive. † savage-fierce adj. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective] grimlyc893 retheeOE grim971 bitterOE bremec1175 grillc1175 grimfula1240 cruel1297 sturdy1297 fiercea1300 fellc1300 boistousa1387 felonousc1386 savagea1393 bestiala1398 bremelya1400 felona1400 hetera1400 cursedc1400 wicked14.. vengeablec1430 wolvishc1430 unnatural?1473 inhuman1481 brutisha1513 cruent1524 felonish1530 mannish1530 abominate1531 lionish1549 boarish?1550 truculent?c1550 unhumanc1550 lion-like1556 beastly1558 orped1567 raw?1573 tigerish?1573 unmanlike1579 boisterous1581 savaged1583 tiger-like1587 yond1590 truculental1593 savage wild1595 tigerous1597 inhumane1598 Neronian1598 immane1599 Phalarical1602 ungentle1603 feral1604 savagious1605 fierceful1607 Dionysian1608 wolvy1611 Hunnish1625 lionly1631 tigerly1633 savage-hearted1639 brutal1641 feroce1641 ferocious1646 asperous1650 ferousa1652 wolfish1674 tiger1763 savage-fierce1770 Tartar1809 Tartarly1821 Neroic1851 tigery1859 Neronic1864 unmannish1867 inhumanitarian1947 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [adjective] grimlyc893 wrothc893 reighOE grima1000 grillc1175 witherc1175 grimfula1240 sturdy1297 wild1297 fiercea1300 man-keenc1300 stoutc1300 cruelc1330 fell?c1335 wicked1375 felonousc1386 felona1400 cursedc1400 runishc1400 keen?c1425 roid?c1425 wolvishc1430 ranishc1450 malicious1485 mankind1519 mannish1530 lionish1549 truculent?c1550 lion-like1556 tigerish?1573 tiger-like1587 truculental1593 Amazonian1595 tigerous1597 feral1604 fierceful1607 efferous1614 lionly1631 tigerly1633 feroce1641 ferocious1646 asperous1650 ferousa1652 blusterous1663 wolfish1674 boarisha1718 savage-fierce1770 Tartar1809 Tartarly1821 wolfy1828 savagerous1832 hawkish1841 tigery1859 attern1868 Hunnish1915 1770 E. Lechmere Poems & Transl. 18 Beasts e'en as savage fierce as those Which Daunia's thick-grown woods disclose. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 487 Vicious in act, in temper savage-fierce. 1839 E. S. Wortley Visionary iii. ii. 206 'Twas he that headed and controulled The Jannizzaries' haughty bands of old, Controul most doubtful,—savage-fierce were they. † savage wild adj. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adjective] retheeOE hotOE strongOE woodlyc1000 un-i-rideOE stoura1122 brathc1175 unridec1175 unrudec1225 starklyc1275 toughc1275 wood1297 ragec1330 unrekena1350 biga1375 furialc1386 outrageousc1390 savagea1393 violenta1393 bremelya1400 snarta1400 wrothlya1400 fightingc1400 runishc1400 dour?a1425 derfc1440 churlousa1450 roida1450 fervent1465 churlish1477 orgulous1483 felona1500 brathfula1522 brathlya1525 fanatic1533 furious1535 boisterous1544 blusterous1548 ungentle1551 sore1563 full-mouthed1594 savage wild1595 Herculean1602 shrill1608 robustious1612 efferous1614 thundering1618 churly1620 ferocient1655 turbulent1656 efferate1684 knock-me-down1760 haggard-wild1786 ensanguined1806 rammish1807 fulminatory1820 riproarious1830 natural1832 survigrous1835 sabre-toothed1849 cataclysmal1861 thunderous1874 fierce1912 cataractal1926 the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective] grimlyc893 retheeOE grim971 bitterOE bremec1175 grillc1175 grimfula1240 cruel1297 sturdy1297 fiercea1300 fellc1300 boistousa1387 felonousc1386 savagea1393 bestiala1398 bremelya1400 felona1400 hetera1400 cursedc1400 wicked14.. vengeablec1430 wolvishc1430 unnatural?1473 inhuman1481 brutisha1513 cruent1524 felonish1530 mannish1530 abominate1531 lionish1549 boarish?1550 truculent?c1550 unhumanc1550 lion-like1556 beastly1558 orped1567 raw?1573 tigerish?1573 unmanlike1579 boisterous1581 savaged1583 tiger-like1587 yond1590 truculental1593 savage wild1595 tigerous1597 inhumane1598 Neronian1598 immane1599 Phalarical1602 ungentle1603 feral1604 savagious1605 fierceful1607 Dionysian1608 wolvy1611 Hunnish1625 lionly1631 tigerly1633 savage-hearted1639 brutal1641 feroce1641 ferocious1646 asperous1650 ferousa1652 wolfish1674 tiger1763 savage-fierce1770 Tartar1809 Tartarly1821 Neroic1851 tigery1859 Neronic1864 unmannish1867 inhumanitarian1947 1595 E. Spenser Amoretti xx, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. B3^v She more cruell and more saluage wylde, then either Lyon or the Lyonesse: shames not to be with guiltlesse bloud defylde. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 37 The time and my intents are sauage wilde [1597 sauage, wilde] . View more context for this quotation This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). savagev. Brit. /ˈsavɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈsævɪdʒ/ Forms: 1500s saluage, 1500s salvage, 1600s sauage, 1600s– savage. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: savage adj. Etymology: < savage adj. †1. intransitive. To act in a savage manner; to be cruel or barbarous. Also with on. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [verb (intransitive)] rage?c1550 savage1563 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > be cruel [verb (intransitive)] savage1563 1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Buckingham sig. Xiii My hart agryesd that such a wretche should raygne, Whose bluddy brest so salvaged out of kynde, That Phalaris had never so bluddy a minde. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xix. 384 Though the blindnesse of some ferities have savaged on the dead, and beene so injurious unto wormes, as to disenterre the bodies of the deceased; yet had they therein no designe upon the soule. View more context for this quotation 2. transitive. To make savage, barbarous, or fierce. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [verb (transitive)] savage1611 unmanner1621 unhuman1648 unhumanize1752 savagize1794 inhumanize1871 the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [verb (transitive)] > treat savage1611 brutalize1879 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > treat cruelly [verb (transitive)] > render cruel savage1611 unhuman1648 encruelize1654 unhumanize1752 inhumanize1871 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 492/1 Dispositions not despicable, if they had not beene sauaged with a too carelesse rudenesse. 1727 J. Thomson Summer 59 Friends, And Relatives,..Savag'd by Woe, forget the social Tye, The blest Engagement of the yearning Heart. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxii. 195 I was so savaged by my wrongs, that I delighted in the recital of this adventure. 1828 R. Southey Epist. in Anniversary 13 Its bloodhounds savaged by a cross of wolf. 1899 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 882 They are extremely good-natured and mild-tempered dogs, unless carefully ‘savaged’ by their masters. 1910 F. H. O'Donnell Hist. Irish Parl. Party II. xxiv. 277 Hardened and savaged by the loathsome and degrading tortures of the convict hell. 3. a. transitive. To attack verbally; spec. to subject to severe or brutal criticism. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack with hostile words or measures fangc1320 hurtlec1374 impugnc1384 weighc1386 to fall upon ——a1398 to start on ——a1398 oppugn?1435 to lay to, untoa1500 onseta1522 wipe1523 to set against ——1542 to fall aboard——1593 aggress1596 to fall foul1602 attack1613 appugn1615 to set upon ——1639 to fall on ——1641 to lay home, hard, hardly to1650 tack1720 bombard1766 savage1796 to pitch into ——1823 to begin upon a personc1825 bulldog1842 to down on (also upon)a1848 to set at ——1849 to start on ——a1851 to start in on1859 set on at or to1862 to let into1872 to go for ——1890 swash1890 slog1891 to get at ——1893 tee1955 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > treat cruelly [verb (transitive)] savage1796 brutalize1879 1796 C. Smith Marchmont III. 146 She used to savage me so..that I shall never go near them any more. 1898 W. T. Stead Gladstone in Contemp. Caricature v. 61 It was the very men who had done most to drive him to intervene, who ‘savaged’ him worst. 1926 Bulletin 9 June 13 He is much too severe on the form of novels—the Cogglesby comedy in ‘Evan’ is savaged, for example. 1962 I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose xxxiv. 319 Once he stroked it [sc. a picture] absently, as he had done when it was his, and was savaged by an attendant. 1989 G. Daly Pre-Raphaelites in Love ii. 36 He had struggled to paint a difficult and daring Annunciation, only to have the picture savaged by critics. 2005 Time Out 7 Dec. 177/3 Brian Moore's source novel savaged the complicity of France's Catholic church in protecting a fugitive wartime Nazi collaborator. b. transitive. Of an animal or (occasionally) person: to attack ferociously, esp. by biting and tearing; to maul.In the 19th cent. used chiefly of a horse (cf. savage n.¹ 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (transitive)] > snap at or bite gnasp1530 snap1530 savage1838 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > biting > bite [verb (transitive)] britOE biteOE forbitec1275 to-bite1375 hancha1400 pincha1425 savage1838 maul1848 bebite1880 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [verb (transitive)] > bite savage1880 1838 New Sporting Mag. Oct. 246 A person had been previously..frightfully gored and savaged. 1880 W. Day Racehorse in Training v. 38 In the stalls the bars should be put up between them, so that..they may be hindered kicking and savaging each other. 1891 N. Gould Double Event 12 A dangerous horse had thrown Thurton to the ground, and was ‘savaging’ him. 1894 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Nov. 7/3 Alexander III was daily caricatured as a bear with an Imperial crown, who wished to savage the best of his subjects. 1929 G. K. Chesterton Poet & Lunatic 107 I can no more see him savaging somebody like poor young Saunders than I can see him kicking a crippled child. 1968 T. Kinsella Nightwalker 28 Pigs in a slaughteryard that turn and savage each other. 2006 M. Amis House of Meetings iv. i. 206 The five-year-old..was savaged by a German shepherd belonging to the security forces. c. transitive. More generally: to damage or harm (a person or thing); to treat harshly or savagely. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] mareOE shendOE hinderc1000 amarOE awemc1275 noyc1300 touchc1300 bleche1340 blemisha1375 spill1377 misdoa1387 grieve1390 damagea1400 despoil?a1400 matea1400 snapea1400 mankc1400 overthrowa1425 tamec1430 undermine1430 blunder1440 depaira1460 adommage?1473 endamage1477 prejudicec1487 fulyie1488 martyra1500 dyscrase?1504 corrupt1526 mangle1534 danger1538 destroy1542 spoil1563 ruinate1564 ruin1567 wrake1570 injury1579 bane1587 massacre1589 ravish1594 wrong1595 rifle1604 tainta1616 mutilea1618 to do violence toa1625 flaw1665 stun1676 quail1682 maul1694 moil1698 damnify1712 margullie1721 maul1782 buga1790 mux1806 queer1818 batter1840 puckeroo1840 rim-rack1841 pretty1868 garbage1899 savage1899 to do in1905 strafe1915 mash1924 blow1943 nuke1967 mung1969 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > treat violently [verb (transitive)] > treat violently or roughly to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)OE ransacka1400 attamec1430 ruffle1489 tug1493 to shear against the wool1546 rumble1570 finger1572 to pull about1679 misguggle1814 rowdy1825 to jerk around1833 scrag1835 rough1845 hooligan1898 roughhouse1898 savage1899 to rough up1915 to treat 'em rough1918 1899 G. W. Steevens In India xx. 187 It takes some regulation to prevent the torrent from savaging banks and bottom. 1915 H. G. Wells Boon 233 The southwest wind savaged his villa. 1963 A. Ross Australia 63 19 M.C.C.'s batsmen were offered only cut-price bowling, and they savaged it accordingly. 1991 Independent 5 Jan. 34/1 These ersatz artists savage London Underground's silver trains with asinine graffiti. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.²1892adj.n.¹a1275v.1563
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