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▪ I. ravening, vbl. n.|ˈræv(ə)nɪŋ|
[f. raven v.]
1. The action of the vb. in its various senses.
1526Tindale Luke xi. 39 Youre inwarde parties are full of raveninge and wickednes. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 49 b, The Wolfe, and all other beastes, those especially which liue by rauening. 1614Raleigh Hist. World iii. (1634) 11 The art of ravening which is familiar to such as liue or border upon desarts. a1713T. Ellwood Autobiog. (1765) 154 To whom his Company was as offensive, as his Ravening was oppressive. 1854Mrs. Gaskell North & S. xxii, The dæmoniac desire of some terrible wild beast for the food that is withheld from his ravening. 1874S. Wilberforce Ess. (1874) I. 285 An instance of selfish ravening for wealth.
†2. Madness, rabies. Also with pl.: A fit of madness. Obs. (? for raving vbl. n.1)
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 568 The biting of a Weasel is reported..in his ravening or madnesse not to be lesse hurtfull then the bitings of mad Dogs. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. iii. vi. 142 The overgreat and confused motion of these Idea's..makes ravenings, as in persons drunk, phrentick, [etc.].
▪ II. ravening, ppl. a.|ˈræv(ə)nɪŋ|
[f. raven v.]
1. That ravens, in senses of the vb.; rapacious, voracious, etc. (In early use esp. of wolves.)
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 129 They wyll appere in terryble similitudes..as rauenynge wolves or rampynge lyons. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. v. 43 He hathe well cutte of his rauenyng ryght handle. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. 25 The Iland breedeth no woolues nor any other rauening beasts. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. iii. Wks. (1851) 96 The ravening seizure of innumerable Thieves in Office. 1767Sir W. Jones Seven Fountains Poems (1777) 50 A cave, where ravening monsters roar. 1822Shelley Hellas 510 Some ships lay feeding The ravening fire. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid ii. 355 Wolves whom ravening hunger has driven all blind on the path.
†2. Rabid, mad. Obs. (? for raving ppl. a.1)
1598Marston Sco. Villanie i. iv. 190 To liue happily (I heare thee boast) from thy Philosophy, And from thy selfe, O rauening lunacy! 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 584 A ravening Wolf by his biting bringeth the same danger, as a ravenous Dog. 1696Bp. Patrick Comm. Exodus (1697) 175 In his ravening fit he called for Moses, as if he had been near him.
Hence † ˈraveningly adv., ravenously. Obs.
1533Udall Flowres 100 b, Gredily and rauenninglye, or gluttonously to deuour veri moch. 1600F. Walker Sp. Mandeville 146 The Wolues..very raueningly with open mouth assayling them. |