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furibund, a.|ˈfjʊərɪbʌnd| Also 5 furybound, 6 Sc. furebund, 8–9 furibond. [ad. L. furibund-us (f. furĕre to rage); the earlier forms through F. furibond.] Furious, raging, mad.
1490Caxton Eneydos xix. 72 As a persone furybounde and furyous. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 610 All in ane mynd and will, Richt furebund. 1601B. Jonson Poetaster v. iii. M 3 b, [In a list of affected words] Oblatrant—Obcæcate—Furibund—Fatuate. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 78 Enragements of that furibund animal the Matrix. 1755T. H. Croker Orl. Fur. xiv. cxix, Brutal, superb, audacious, furibond. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iv. iv. (1872) 120 A waste energy as of Hercules not yet furibund. 1855R. R. Madden Life C'tess Blessington II. 104 Strangely jocular in his furibond movements. 1880Standard 16 Jan. 4 The furibund utterances of Ultramontane journalism. |