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slaughterous, a.|ˈslɔːtərəs|
[f. slaughter n. + -ous.]
Murderous, destructive.
1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 20 What fortun vnhappye Mee fenst from falling wyth thy fierce slaughterus handstroke. 1605Shakes. Macb. v. v. 14 Direnesse familiar to my slaughterous thoughts Cannot once start me. 1634Canne Necess. Separation 20 Many will rather submit to those slaughterous and inhuman courses than seek to redeem their precious liberty. 1798Progress of Man 96 in Anti Jacobin (1852) 74 The slaught'rous arms that wrought thy woe. 1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 97 The place where the slaughterous but immortal struggle was waged. 1839James Louis XIV, II. 367 After various slaughterous conflicts,..the Spanish troops were obliged to withdraw. 1853Mrs. Gaskell Cranford x, Some accident might occur from such slaughterous and indiscriminate directions.
Hence ˈslaughterously adv., ‘destructively; murderously’ (1847 Webster). |