| 释义 |
ireful, a.|ˈaɪəfʊl|
[f. ire n. + -ful.]
1. Full of ire; angry, wrathful.
c1300Cursor M. 27798 (Cott. Galba) Heuy chere, irefull and ill. 13..Coer de L. 366 In his stirope up he stode, And smote to hym with irefull mode. c1475Partenay 3258 A man chaufed with yerfull manace. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 155 Foule woordis make all folke, Irefull or ferefull. 1652C. B. Stapylton Herodian 41 Electus, Lætus, Marcia too must looke, With many moe, to tast his Irefull spight. 1725Pope Odyss. iii. 179 With ire-full taunts each other they oppose. 1848C. Brontë J. Eyre xii, His eyes and gathered eyebrows looked ireful and thwarted just now.
2. Choleric, passionate, irascible.
c1400Solomon's Bk. Wisdom 20 Aȝein stronge men & ireful look þat þou ne fiȝth. 1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 116 With the irefull we must not be importunate to entreate a pardon. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 638 The inhabitants of..Barbary are poore and proude, irefull, and writing all injuries in marble. 1819L. Hunt Indicator No. 1 (1822) I. 6 The want of this sympathy from others made him ireful, revengeful, impious. |