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irascible, a.|ɪˈræsɪb(ə)l, aɪˈræs-|
Also 7 irasible, 8 irrascible.
[a. F. irascible (12th c. in Littré), ad. L. īrāscibil-is, f. īrāscī to grow angry.]
Easily provoked to anger or resentment; prone to anger; irritable, choleric, hot-tempered, passionate.
1530Palsgr. 316/2 Irascible, inclyned or disposed to anger, irascible. 1656Blount Glossogr., Irascible, cholerick, soon angred, subject to anger. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. (1817) I. ii. 345 The Scots, naturally an irascible and high spirited people. 1831Scott Cast. Dang. vii, The boar..was a much more irascible and courageous animal. 1873Black Pr. Thule viii. (1874) 114 The only daughter of a solitary and irascible old gentleman.
b. Of emotions, actions, etc.: Characterized by, arising from, or exhibiting anger.
1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 426 Irascible, and objurgatory speech. 1734Watts Reliq. Juv. lx. (1789) 200 Our irascible passions..indulged..are ready to defile the whole man. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VII. 296 No animal in the creation seems endued with such an irascible nature. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 302 Dignity is always more irascible the more petty the potentate. 1882A. W. Ward Dickens v. 119 His irascible nature failed to resent a rather doubtful compliment.
c. irascible appetite, irascible affection, irascible part of the soul, in Plato's tripartite division of the soul, τὸ θυµοειδές, one of the two parts of the irrational nature, being that in which courage, spirit, passion, were held to reside; and which was superior to τὸ ἐπιθυµητικόν, the concupiscible part in which resided the appetites.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. vi. (Add. MS. 27944) lf. 20 b/2 Drede & sorwe comeþ of þe irascibel, for of þing þat we hatiþ, we haueþ sorowe. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 112 b, It is called the appetyte irascyble, or the angry appetyte. 1606L. Bryskett Civ. Life 48 The seates of the two principall appetites, the irascible and the concupiscible; of that the heart, of this the liuer. 1691Hartcliffe Virtues 23 Pride, Contempt, Impatience, Anger, Fear, Boldness and the like generous and brave Passions, belong to what we say is the irascible part of the mind. 1863Draper Intell. Devel. Europe v. (1865) 116 Now, the reason being seated in the head, the spirit or irascible soul has its seat in the breast.
†d. quasi-n. = Irascible appetite, etc. Obs.
1594[see concupiscible 2 b]. 1656H. More Enthus. Tri. To Rdr. A iij a, These I spread before him..to provoke his Irascible.
Hence iˈrascibleness, irascibility; iˈrascibly adv., in an irascible manner, angrily.
1727Bailey vol. II, Irascibleness. 1828Mirror V. 264/1 Nothing irascibly said will..make way with an obstinate or wilful man. |