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truculent, a.|ˈtruːk-, ˈtrʌkjʊlənt|
[ad. L. truculentus, f. trux (truc-em) fierce, savage; cf. obs. F. truculent (Cotgr. 1611).]
1. Characterized by or exhibiting ferocity or cruelty; fierce, cruel, savage, barbarous.
c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 105 Havinge attained libertie, [Britain] entered into moste truculent warrs. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 10 His aspect and countenance was fierce, truculent, and fearful. Ibid. 254 Many Horses by their seed and stones are made very fierce, truculent, and unruly. 1670Baxter Cure Ch.-Div. 4 It is the character of a truculent people..that they regard not the person of the old. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. vi. 141 Convulsed and agonizing under the knife of some truculent villain. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars i. 4 The truculent ruffianism that pretended to be animated by the crusading spirit.
b. Of speech or writing: Violent; rude; scathing; savage; harsh.
1850Marsden Early Purit. (1853) 204 Pamphlets..scarcely less truculent or less contemptuous of the Christian virtues. 1868Milman St. Paul's xvii. 416 The broader and more truculent satire of Ulrich Hutten. 1872Morley Voltaire iii. (ed. 2) 120 Voltaire is never either gross or truculent.
†c. transf. Of a disease: Destructive; deadly. Obs. rare.
1665G. Harvey Advice agst. Plague x, More or less truculent Plagues.
¶2. (In catachrestic use, associated with truck n.1, v.1, truckle v.) Mean, base, mercenary.
1825Bentham Ration. Rew. 62 A truculent exchange not only of truth, but of sincerity, for money. 1884J. T. Davidson Talks Yng. Men viii, The mean dastard [Ahab] sent back the truculent reply: ‘My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have’.
3. Comb., as truculent-looking.
1828Scott F.M. Perth xvii, This ungainly and truculent-looking savage. 1866Howells Venet. Life viii, That truculent-looking craft.
So † trucuˈlental a. Obs. rare—1.
1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. ***j, A glorious, and brauing Knight, That would be deem'd a truculental wight. |