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rabid, a.|ˈræbɪd|
[ad. L. rabid-us, f. rabĕre to rave, rage, be mad.]
1. Furious, raging; madly violent in nature or behaviour. Also transf. of things or parts of the body.
c1611Chapman Iliad xxi. 129 As my brows were fork'd with rabid horns. 1615― Odyss. xii. 428 All the rabide flight Of winds that ruine ships are bred in night. 1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. iv. 501 He licks his rabid Jaws. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. vii. 146 Some men are naturally..thievish, pugnacious, rabid. 1818Shelley Rev. Islam v. vii, Like rabid snakes, that sting some gentle child Who brings them food. 1848Dickens Dombey x, He was made so rabid by the gout.
b. Of feelings, passions, disease, etc.
1647Crashaw Ps. xxiii. Poems 34 He..Strokes and tames my rabid grief. 1700Dryden Ovid's Met. xv. 512 With rabid Hunger feed upon your kind. 1858Gladstone Homer I. 141 She has not the rabid virulence against Troy which distinguishes Juno. 1878H. M. Stanley Dark Cont. II. xii. 361 The itch disease was rabid..about a dozen of the men were fearful objects of its virulence.
c. Of persons: Having some quality, feeling, view, etc., in a violent degree.
1820Lamb Elia i. Christ's Hosp. 35 Yrs. ago, B. was a rabid pedant. 1841–4Emerson Ess., Nom. & Real. Wks. (Bohn) I. 256 The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator and rich man [etc.]. 1884Edna Lyall We Two xiii, He is very rabid on the subject.
2. spec. Of beasts (rarely of human beings): Affected with rabies; mad.
1804Med. Jrnl. XII. 388 Persons who have had reason to believe, that they were bitten by a rabid animal. 1822Good's Stud. Med. III. 347 A rabid young man. 1833Forbes, etc. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 489/1 The disease named hydrophobia usually arises from the bite of a rabid dog. 1880Med. Temp. Jrnl. July 147 Bites of rabid animals.
b. Pertaining to, of the nature of, rabies.
1806Med. Jrnl. XV. 412 Nothing characteristic of rabid hydrophobia. 1822Good's Stud. Med. III. 375 Their plan of abstracting rabid blood from the system. 1887Dolan Hydrophobia 8 An accompaniment of the rabid virus.
Hence raˈbidity; ˈrabidly adv.; ˈrabidness.
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. xv. §27 The furies and rabidness of their passion. 1831Disraeli Yng. Duke v. vi. 174 At any rate he must get rid of his rabidity. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 409 Wolves..going forth to prey when urged to rabidness by hunger. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. IV. 505 Brühl's rabidities of appetite. 1877Kinglake Crimea VI. vi. §xiv. (1894) 272 Men shouting and rabidly yelling. |