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▪ I. ire, n.|aɪə(r)|
Also 4–6 yre, ir, 5 yr, iere, 5–6 yer, 6 Sc. yire, iyre.
[a. OF. ire, yre (11th c. in Littré), ad. L. īra anger, wrath, rage.]
Anger; wrath. Now chiefly poet. and rhet.
a1300E.E. Ps. lxxvii. 25 [lxxviii. 21] Ire somdele Vpstegh þanne in Ireale. a1325Sir Beues (MS. A.) 2488 Þo was Beues in gret yre. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2336 Ne he ne saide namore til hire, Bot wente fro hure al in ire. 1388Wyclif Prov. xv. 1 A soft answere brekith ire. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 22 b, It shulde appease hys Iere. 1556Lauder Tractate 456 Frome all Inuyne thay suld be fre, Frome Malyce, Yre, and Creueltie. 1583Leg. Bp. St. Androis Pref. 57 in Satir. Poems Reform. xlv, Baals bischops, provocking God to yire. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 843 That wish'd the Mountains now might be again Thrown on them as a shelter from his ire. 1706Prior Ode to Queen 141 While with fiercest ire Bellona glows. 1808Scott Marm. vi. xiv, Burn'd Marmion's swarthy cheek like fire, And shook his very frame for ire. 1865Kingsley Herew. xii, Hereward was flushed with ire and scorn.
†b. rarely in pl. Obs.
1388Wyclif Prov. xxx. 33 He that stirith iris [Vulg. iras], bringith forth discordis.
▪ II. † ire, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. ire n.]
trans. To anger, irritate.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. ii. 361 Her brethron & her owne kynde hit ireth [L. irritat].
▪ III. ire
obs. form of air n.1 (in quot. in sense 7).
1494Fabyan Chron. vi. clxv. 160 All myghte not stoppe the intollerable ire of his body.
▪ IV. ire
obs. or dial. f. iron; obs. f. her. |