sanguineadj.n.
/ˈsaŋɡwɪn/, U.S. /ˈsæŋɡwən/ A. adj.
1.
a. Blood-red. Also sanguine red (sometimes hyphenated), †red sanguine, †brown sanguine. Now only literary.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > deep red or crimson
blood-redeOE
purpleOE
bloodyOE
purpurine1300
sanguinea1382
tuly1398
crimsonc1400
murreyc1400
purpurec1400
sanguinolentc1450
cramoisy1480
ruby-redc1487
rubya1500
sanguineousc1520
sanguine-coloured1552
blood-coloured1567
rubine1576
purple-red1578
rubied?1594
incarnadine1605
Tyrian?1614
rubiousa1616
murrey-coloured1657
haematine1658
vinaceous1688
carmine1737
claret-coloured1779
ensanguined1785
peony1810
sanguinaceous1816
gory1822
crimsony1830
vinous1834
laky1849
grenat1851
madder1852
wine-dark1855
pigeon's blood1870
poppy crimson1879
claret1882
vinous1894
alizarin1923
wine1950
the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > deep red or crimson
crimson madderOE
purpureOE
murrey1305
tuly1398
oxblood?1440
crimson?a1475
sanguinea1500
carnation?1533
murrey colour1537
purple-red1565
ruby1572
sanguine red1601
velvet-crimson1646
lake1660
lac1682
rubine1704
madder red1728
ruby-red1738
granate1750
palm-colour1773
morone1777
carmine1799
vinaceous1819
incarnadine1821
crimsoning1833
pigeon's blood1865
solferinoc1865
Burgundy1881
sang-de-bœuf1881
vermilion-crimson1882
claret1884
royal red1890
wine1895
pigeon ruby red1897
Bordeaux1904
peony1914
madder crimson1991
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xlv. 12 With..blyu vyolet silc, and sanguyn silc [L. hyacintho et purpura].
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xxiv. 1293 Synopis is a reed colour and was first yfounde in þe ylond Pontus... And is ycleped rubrica for it is next to rede sanguine.
1399 in Hampole's Wks. (1896) II. 449 A longe sangwyn gowne furryd with Calabir.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1310 His colour was sangwyn.
1444 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 106 ij girdils ye tone redde and tother sangvyn.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 1238 His colour was sangweyn.
1494 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 323 A sangewyn kyrtyll and a smoke.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. ii. 4 Within hir rosy cartis cleirlie schane Aurora vestit into broun sanguane.
1526 Grete Herball xxviii. sig. Bvv/1 It is an vnpure thynge, and hath a sanguyne coloure.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 625 Interlaced..with certain knots, both white and also of a sanguine red.
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 23 in Justa Edouardo King Like to that sanguine flower inscrib'd with wo.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 153 In Persia the womens pale colour is made sanguine by adulterate complexion.
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 clii. 39 Her Flag aloft spread ruffling to the wind, And sanguine Streamers seem the floud to fire.
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 170 [The] vault is painted with a deep sanguin red.
1757 T. Gray Ode II iii. iii, in Odes 21 Yon sanguine cloud, Rais'd by thy breath.
1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 158 The lilac, various in array, now white, Now sanguine.
1820 P. B. Shelley Cloud in Prometheus Unbound 197 The sanguine sunrise, with his meteor eyes, And his burning plumes outspread.
1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 26 In an obscure corner grew the sanguine beet.
1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways I. iii. 63 The beautiful virgin devoted to the sanguine coat.
b. Natural History. Chiefly in names of animals and plants, usually as transl. of modern Latin sanguineus in specific names. sanguine partridge n. Geoffroy's Blood pheasant, Ithaginis cruentus geoffroyi.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > ithaginus cruentus (blood pheasant)
sanguine partridge1840
blood pheasant1864
1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 657 Sanguine Turtle.
1809 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VII. ii. 487 Sanguine Paradise-bird, Paradisea sanguinea.
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xvii. 82 The sanguine ants at length rush upon the negroes.
1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) iii. 480 Sanguine; dull red, passing into brownish black.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 443/1 The Sanguine Partridge..may be considered as uniting the Partridges with the Pheasants and the Polyplectrons.
1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea 261 I may compare the Sanguine Sponge to an uneven, rather than a hilly country.
2.
a. Of or pertaining to blood; consisting of or containing blood. Now rare.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > [adjective]
bloodyeOE
sanguine1447
blood-likea1500
bloodish1530
crimson1560
sanguineous1646
sanguiferous1682
sanguinary1684
sanguinous1833
haemal1839
haematoid1840
haematic1854
haematogenic1876
haematogenous1880
haematal1886
1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 259 Dyssentyrye..Wych..Sendyth owte sangweyn agestyoun.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxl. 125 The tongue is of a spungie and sanguine substance.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Sanguin flesh..is that which is engendred of blood; of which sort is the flesh compounded in the Muscles, the Heart [etc.].
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 60 The Barber, that has stept from the demolishing of Beards, to the Practice of more sanguine Operations.
1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 4 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Without any Pretensions to that Sanguine Discovery [of circulation of blood], or knowing any thing considerable of it, much less of his Teaching it to Dr. Harvey.
1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 300 That this Poison may duely operate, it is necessary that it should be externally admitted into the sanguine vessels.
1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 368 The colouring part seems to be richer in the sanguine principle.
1812 G. Crabbe Tales vii. 128 She minc'd the sanguine flesh in frustums fine.
1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 146 It was..to serpents, that the Greeks likened the dissolving of the Medusa cloud in blood. Of that sanguine rain..I cannot yet speak.
1873 H. E. H. King Disciples: Giov. Nicotera (1877) 307 One sanguine sacramental cup.
b. Causing or delighting in bloodshed; bloody, sanguinary. Now poetic or rhetorical.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bloodthirstiness > [adjective]
bloodyeOE
bloodlyc1425
bloodthirsty1539
bloody-minded?1545
cannibal1555
blood-thirsting?1569
sanguinolent1577
blood-drinking1594
cannibalian1602
sword-minded1603
sanguisugous1615
sanguinary1623
sanguinarian1637
sanguinarious1654
sanguinous1663
sanguine1705
cannibalic?1795
cannibalish1796
cannibalistic1827
the world > life > death > killing > [adjective] > eager to kill
sanguinolent1577
sanguineous1612
sanguisugous1615
sanguinary1623
sanguinarian1637
sanguinarious1654
sanguinous1663
sanguine1705
bloodhot1866
red-handed1879
red-hand1894
kill-crazy1942
shoot-to-kill1973
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > bloodthirstiness > [adjective]
bloodyeOE
bloodthirsty1539
bloody-minded?1545
cannibal1555
blood-thirsting?1569
bloodly1574
sanguinolent1577
blood-drinking1594
cannibalian1602
sword-minded1603
sanguisugous1615
sanguinary1623
sanguinarian1637
sanguinarious1654
sanguinous1663
sanguine1705
cannibalic?1795
cannibalish1796
cannibalistic1827
faggoty-minded1856
1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft 15 The Inquisition, the Hangman, the Dragoons, and the Jaylors, are the holy Pillars of their sanguine Priest-Craft.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xlii. 115 Ordered both their Heads to be struck off, which ended their Disputes effectually..but Governor Sowdon was sent for to Fort St. George, and another sent in his Place less sanguin.
1736 Ld. Hervey Mem. (1847) I. 346 The long and sanguine war that soon followed.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna i. xxxi. 16 And Fear, the demon pale, his sanguine shrine forsook.
1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 85 The fiends in hell delight to view The sanguine slaughter done.
1884 J. A. Symonds Shakspere's Predecessors ix. 331 The craziest career which ever closed a brilliant dynasty in sanguine gloom.
3.
a. In medieval and later physiology: Belonging to that one of the four ‘complexions’ (see complexion n. 1) which was supposed to be characterized by the predominance of the blood over the other three humours, and indicated by a ruddy countenance and a courageous, hopeful, and amorous disposition.In the strict use as connected with the doctrine of the four ‘complexions’, the word is now historical; but the modern writers (chiefly phrenologists) who have attempted a classification of ‘temperaments’ usually retain it as one of their descriptive terms.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [adjective] > humours > specific
moista1393
cholerica1398
melancholya1398
radicala1398
sanguinea1398
adusta1400
phlegmatica1400
adusted1547
phlegmatical1586
humid1604
sanguineous1732
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxxxi. 1025 Þe vse of peper is nought profitable to sanguyne men.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 335 Of his complexion he was sangwyn.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 196 The sangueyn man of blood hath hardynesse, Wrouhte to be lovyng, large of his dispence.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 39 The iiij [sc. complexions]..sanguyn melancolyk phlegmatyk & coleryke.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcijv A prince of haut corage, young, lusty and sanguyne of complexion.
1587 R. Greene Morando ii. sig. I4v The Saturnine temperature is necessarie to dry vp the superfluities of the sanguine constitution.
1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 309 A fat sanguine Woman.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Sanguine Constitutions require a frequent Use of Phlebotomy. Sanguine People are usually observed to be brisk, bold, daring, and even presumptuous.
1781 J. Moore View Soc. Italy (1790) II. lxii. 228 [A disease] more apt to seize people of a sanguine constitution than others.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxvii. 346 Persons of a sanguine temperament are in general the most susceptible.
1855 R. Browning Epist. 109 The man—it is one Lazarus a Jew, Sanguine, proportioned.
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. ii. §88 98 Small brains and great activity, betoken what are known as the sanguine and nervous temperaments.
b. Astrology. Of signs, etc.: Favourable to the sanguine complexion.
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the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [adjective] > benign
benefic1601
benigna1631
benevolous1642
benefical1647
sanguine1647
1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. vi. 48 [The First Quadrant is] called the Orientall, Vernall, Masculine, Sanguine, Infant quarter.
c. With reference to ‘complexion’ in the modern sense (see complexion n. 4): Red in the face. Cf. sense A. 1.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [adjective]
redOE
ruddya1300
red-faced1579
cherry-cheeked1586
rose-cheeked1593
red-cheeked1602
murrey1623
florid1650
sanguine1684
sanguine-complexioned1692
apple-faced1781
apple-cheeked1827
pippin-faced1836
lobsterish1914
1684 London Gaz. No. 1982/4 He is very tall, having curled brown Hair, or sanguine Complexion.
1839 T. De Quincey Lake Reminiscences in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 7/1 A sanguine..complexion..has, of late years, usurped upon the original bronze-tint.
4.
a. Of persons or their dispositions: Having the mental attributes characteristic of the sanguine complexion (see sense A. 3 above); chiefly, disposed to hopefulness or confidence of success.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > [adjective]
hightlyOE
sanguinian1340
brighta1413
sanguine1509
hopeful1597
sanguinical1632
hopely1653
hoping1842
sanguineous1847
hoped1896
upbeat1947
the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adjective] > cheerfully optimistic
sanguine1509
elastical1660
buoyanta1748
elastic1786
resilient1830
sunshine-showery1830
happy-go-lucky1835
toujours gai1899
bouncy1921
upbeat1947
blue skies2005
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xvi. 73 For sanguyne youth it is al contrary.
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. iii. sig. D4v He is neither too fantastickly Melancholy; too slowly P[h]legmatick, too lightly Sanguine . View more context for this quotation
1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. *B Our two Great Poets, being so different in their Tempers, one Cholerick and Sanguin, the other Phlegmatick and Melancholick.
1841 D. Brewster Martyrs of Sci. ii. iv. 182 He was of sanguine temperament.
1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. vii. 240 Philip was not of that sanguine temper which overlooks..the obstacles in its way.
1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xix. 144 It was published..under difficulties which would..have killed any man of less sanguine temperament.
b. Of persons and expectations, etc.: Hopeful or confident with reference to some particular issue.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > [adjective] > of a particular issue
sanguine1673
1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling (1684) Pref. 4 When the most sanguine of his Disciples had denied, yea forswore, and all had forsaken him.
1712 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. c6 Dec. (1965) I. 173 Sanguine groundlesse Hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the Happyness of Life.
1735–6 T. Sheridan in Swift's Lett. (1768) IV. 151 Do not think me sanguine in this; for more unlikely and less reasonable favours have been granted.
1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob Arcot's Debts in Wks. (1815) IV. 242 In the fond imaginations of a sanguine avarice.
1836 W. Irving Astoria III. ix. 139 He now looked forward with sanguine hope to the accomplishment of all his plans.
1863 M. E. Braddon J. Marchmont iii It's kind of you to look at it in this sanguine way, Arundel.
1876 A. J. Evans Through Bosnia ix. 417 And yet how fascinating is Ragusa still! It far surpassed our most sanguine expectations.
B. n.† 1. A cloth of blood-red colour, also a piece of this.† 3. The sanguine ‘complexion’ or temperament.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric of specific colour > [noun] > pink or red
redc1275
sanguine1319
Brazil1389
crimson1416
murrey1530
carnadine1598
vermiliona1640
pompadour1761
1319 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 131 [Also two] sanguynes [in grain, value 15 pounds].
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 441 In sangwyn and in Pers he clad was al.
1411 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 51 [To the aforesaid Alice two] Kirtells, [one of] Sangwyn.
2. † a. A blood-red colour. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > deep red or crimson
crimson madderOE
purpureOE
murrey1305
tuly1398
oxblood?1440
crimson?a1475
sanguinea1500
carnation?1533
murrey colour1537
purple-red1565
ruby1572
sanguine red1601
velvet-crimson1646
lake1660
lac1682
rubine1704
madder red1728
ruby-red1738
granate1750
palm-colour1773
morone1777
carmine1799
vinaceous1819
incarnadine1821
crimsoning1833
pigeon's blood1865
solferinoc1865
Burgundy1881
sang-de-bœuf1881
vermilion-crimson1882
claret1884
royal red1890
wine1895
pigeon ruby red1897
Bordeaux1904
peony1914
madder crimson1991
a1500 Early Eng. Misc. (Warton Club) 90 Thanne ȝour flote is made fore ȝour sangweyns, and also for ȝour viollettes saddere thanne ȝour morreys.
1543 R. Grafton Contin. in Chron. J. Hardyng (longer ed.) f. cxlviv Greined clothe of sondrie coloures, as scarlettes, crimosins, sanguines.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 44v This face had bene more cumlie, if that hie redde in the cheeke, were somwhat more pure sanguin than it is.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. N4v From which forth gusht a stream of goreblood thick,..And into a deepe sanguine dide the grassy grownd.
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. F The burgers..of Wittenberg..were..dronkards, and had all the coate coulours of sanguin, purple, crimson, copper, carnation that were to be had in their countenaunces.
1612 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise xxiii. 86 With which water you may diaper and dammaske vpon all other blewes, and sanguines to make them shew more faire and beautifull.
b. Heraldry. (See quots.)
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [noun] > colour > sanguine
sanguine1562
dragon's tail1706
1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 21 The last of all collours, of Armory, which is called Murrey. This is blazed Sanguine, and is a princely colour.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. iii. 11 The last of the seuen mixed colors, we doe commonly call Murrey, but in Blazon, Sanguine.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Sanguine, the Heralds term for the Colour usually called Murry, being made of Lake with a little Spanish Brown.
1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 11 Sanguine [is represented] by diagonal lines crossing each other.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [noun] > cheerful optimism
sanguine1530
toujours gai1711
optimism1812
buoyancy1819
buoyance1821
rhathymia1936
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 265/1 Sanguyn a complexion, sanguin.
1594 Lady Russell in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 40 Your Lordships so honorable most kynde..visitacion, as turned melancoly into a sanguin.
1656 H. More Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1712) 25 That it is the Reign of Sanguine, not the rule of the Spirit, is discoverable both from the Complexion of the Head of this Sect, as also from the general disposition of his followers.
1718 Mem. Life J. Kettlewell i. ii. 15 His temper was a Mixture of Sanguine and Choler.
4. Art. A crayon coloured red with iron oxide; a drawing executed with red chalks.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > chalk or crayon
chalk1481
pastel1612
crayonc1660
Conté1852
black chalk1854
sanguine1854
sumi1889
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > in specific medium
coal work1651
crayon1662
pastel1791
pencilling1803
pen sketch1847
pen-picture1853
sanguine1854
pen and ink1860
black lead study1862
sepia1863
stylograph1866
charcoal1884
fusain1884
line drawing1891
celluloid1920
1854 F. W. Fairholt Dict. Terms Art Sanguine, a deep blood colour, prepared from oxide of iron.
1882 P. G. Hamerton Graphic Arts 115 When an artist uses red chalk or sanguine he does not intend to produce a very powerful effect.
1882 P. G. Hamerton Graphic Arts 115 Examples of fine sanguines are..extremely frequent in every large collection of drawings by the old masters.
1886 Academy 21 Aug. 127/2 An interesting Greuze sketch in sanguine.
Compounds
C1. General attributive, parasynthetic and adverbial.
sanguine-coloured adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > deep red or crimson
blood-redeOE
purpleOE
bloodyOE
purpurine1300
sanguinea1382
tuly1398
crimsonc1400
murreyc1400
purpurec1400
sanguinolentc1450
cramoisy1480
ruby-redc1487
rubya1500
sanguineousc1520
sanguine-coloured1552
blood-coloured1567
rubine1576
purple-red1578
rubied?1594
incarnadine1605
Tyrian?1614
rubiousa1616
murrey-coloured1657
haematine1658
vinaceous1688
carmine1737
claret-coloured1779
ensanguined1785
peony1810
sanguinaceous1816
gory1822
crimsony1830
vinous1834
laky1849
grenat1851
madder1852
wine-dark1855
pigeon's blood1870
poppy crimson1879
claret1882
vinous1894
alizarin1923
wine1950
1552 in Surrey Archæol. Coll. (1869) 4 31 A sangwyne coloured coope of Sattyn.
1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow i. i. 24 Wrapped warmly in a sanguine-coloured cloak.
sanguine-complexioned adj.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [adjective]
redOE
ruddya1300
red-faced1579
cherry-cheeked1586
rose-cheeked1593
red-cheeked1602
murrey1623
florid1650
sanguine1684
sanguine-complexioned1692
apple-faced1781
apple-cheeked1827
pippin-faced1836
lobsterish1914
1692 London Gaz. No. 2773/4 Round Shoulder'd and sanguine Complexion'd.
sanguine-flowered adj.
ΚΠ
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. iii. [Proteus] 43 His fustian shirt, sanguineflowered, trembles its Spanish tassels at his secrets.
sanguine-streaming adj.
ΚΠ
1799 H. Gurney Cupid & Psyche xiii. 30 And sanguine-streaming fires arise, Meteorous from the trembling ground.
sanguine-valiant adj.
ΚΠ
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. iii. 101 Audacity and hope alternate in him with misgivings; though the sanguine-valiant side carries it.
C2. † sanguine-rod n. Obsolete the wild cornel or dogwood.† sanguine stone n. Obsolete (see quot. 1728); also elliptical as n.
sanguine-bilious adj. partly sanguine and partly bilious.
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1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxxi. 424 Jane McKernan, aged 28—sanguine bilious.
sanguine-heart adj. crimson at the heart.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > plants > appearance of plant > plant defined by colour or marking > [adjective] > having particular type marking or colouring
streaked1600
marbled1629
muscadine1646
agated1665
silver-cupped1688
red-top1705
tessellated1723
lineate1777
fancy1793
red-tipped1800
areolated1802
white-lipped1813
variegated1818
pennaceous1819
streak-flowered1822
limbate1826
unbroken1829
sanguine-heart1840
rivulose1843
pencilled1846
areolate1847
notate1857
sigillate1858
discolor1859
discolorous1860
fumose1866
fumous1866
tricolour1866
unnetted1869
1840 R. Browning Sordello iii. 356 Where in maple-chamber glooms, Crowned with what sanguine-heart pomegranate blooms, Advanced it ever?
sanguine-nervous adj. partly sanguine and partly nervous.
ΚΠ
1841 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion (ed. 3) ii. iv. 272 A mixture of the sanguine and nervous, the sanguine-nervous.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > cornus (dogwood and allies) > [noun]
gaiterc1000
dog-tree1548
cornel1551
dogberry1551
prick tree1551
hound's-berry1578
hound's-tree1578
prick-timber tree1578
dwarf honeysuckle1597
dogwood1598
sanguine-rod1601
prickwood1691
bloody twig1759
rose willow1798
red osier1807
swamp dogwood1817
stone-berry?1838
bunch-berry1845
cornus1846
silky cornel1848
silky dogwood1900
pagoda tree1978
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 189 The plant called the Sanguin-Rod.
sanguine root n. = bloodroot n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > geranium and allied flowers > allied flowers
herb Roberta1300
stick pile?a1450
culverfootc1450
devil's needlea1500
crane's-bill1548
dove's-foot1548
geranium1548
shepherd's needle1562
bloodroot1578
Gratia Dei1578
sanguine root1578
pigeon's-foot1597
Roman cranesbill1648
robin1694
redshanka1722
musk1728
ragged Robert1734
pigeon-foot1736
rose geranium1773
mountain flowera1787
wood cranesbill1796
peppermint-scented geranium1823
stork's bill1824
wild geranium1840
musk geranium1845
pin grass1847
Robert1847
stinking crane's bill1857
mourning widow1866
pinweed1876
ivy-leaved pelargonium1887
ivy-geranium1894
regal1894
peppermint geranium1922
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxxiii. 48 The sixth [kind of Geranium] is called..Sanguine roote, or Bloud roote.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [noun] > jasper > blood-stone
heliotropea1393
sawsykyllec1425
sanguinary1465
bloodstone1504
elutropia1567
stanch-blood1567
heliotropian1638
sanguine stone1728
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > cryptocrystalline quartz > chalcedony > blood-stone
heliotropea1393
sawsykyllec1425
sanguinary1465
stanch-blood1567
sanguine stone1728
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. a iii The .v. stone is calde a Loys, a sanquine stone or sinamer hit is calde in armys.
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. a iii Aloys is calde sinamer or sanquine in armys.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Sanguine-Stone, Lapis Sanguinalis,..a kind of Jasper brought from New-Spain, of a dark brown Colour, marked with Spots of a Blood-red.
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† sanguinev.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To stain or paint a sanguine colour.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > making or becoming red > make red [verb (transitive)] > with dye, stain, or pigment
purple?a1475
ruddle1538
bloody1590
sanguine1591
scutchanele1596
vermeil1596
vermilion1606
gule1609
incarnadinea1616
raddle1631
vermilion1656
bow-dyea1658
reddle1663
miniate1670
rud1680
tiver1792
red-ochre1805
roucou1817
vermilionize1854
red-lead1871
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Pavonado Sanguined as a sword hilt. Politus.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 558 Iron-smiths also haue much vse of bitumen, and namely, in sanguining or colouring their ironworke.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sanguine, the bloud-stone wherewith Cutlers doe sanguine their hilts.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 140 His face was also sanguined with Vermilion.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 91/2 Sanguining, is to make it [the Hilt and Pommell] of a pure Purple colour.
2. To stain with blood.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > stain or smear with blood
bebloodyc1210
bebleedc1230
begore?1518
blood1522
imbrue1529
bloody1530
gore1566
engore1593
sanguine1610
gild1614
beblood1623
bleed1634
ensanguine1667
bloodstain1798
vermilion1817
imbue1850
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie ii. vi. 55 It is the honour of a generous minde, to put off his Belt, and not to sanguine his blade with cold blood.
1689 J. Tutchin Bloody Assizes 16 He breathed Death like a destroying Angel, and sanguined his very Ermins in Blood.
Derivatives
ˈsanguined adj. stained with blood; of eyes: bloodshot.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > bloodshot
bloodshota1450
blood-shottenc1450
shottenc1460
sanguinous1490
bloodshed1583
sanguined1700
blood-run1703
blood-discoloured1871
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > stained > stained or smeared with blood
redOE
bloodyOE
drearyOE
weta1300
bloodedc1300
bleedingc1305
forbled1387
gory?a1500
cruent1524
purpled1561
brued1563
beweltered1565
bloodied1566
beblubbered1582
purple1590
bloodstained1594
ensanguined1628
blood-bedabbled1629
cruentous1648
cruentate1661
begored1683
sanguined1700
bluggy1876
1700 T. Parnell Homer's Battle Frogs & Mice i. 111 He rolls his sanguin'd Eyes.
1814 Gonzanga iii. i, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre III. 126 That life..Which..Heav'n did preserve In battle on Bulgaria's sanguin'd plains.
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