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rageful, a.|ˈreɪdʒfʊl|
[f. rage n. + -ful.]
†1. Mad, frantic, frenzied. Obs. rare.
1580Sidney Arcadia iii. (1598) 280 Then Sorrow lost the witte of utterance, and grew ragefull, and madde. 1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory (1869) 143 Any other desperate signe of ragefull sorrow.
2. Full of rage or furious anger.
1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 142 With ragefull eyes shee bad him defend himselfe. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 184 The right Zelez,..are as malicious and ragefull against the Protestants as ever. a1639W. Whately Prototypes ii. xxix. (1640) 144 That bloudy and ragefull murder. 1741Richardson Pamela II. 245 Her fiery Eyes, and rageful Countenance, made me lose all my Courage. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 187 Allecto doffs grim face and rageful limbs. 1885Tennyson Anc. Sage 269 Nor be thou rageful, like the handled bee.
3. transf. of things: Full of furious activity.
1597Beard Theatre God's Judgem. (1612) 68 The furie of that ragefull storme. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. xii. §4 (1622) 129 As if ragefull windes should bring this ratling sound. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. i. (1713) 182 Some Chymical Liquors..mingled together will be in such a rageful Fermentation, that the Glass will grow hot. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 523 A rageful show'r hath washed it down.
Hence ˈragefully adv.
a1615Donne Ess. (1651) 123 Ragefully tempested with storms of persecution. 1865Day of Rest Oct. 585 The Israelite was ragefully indignant. 1874L. Carr Jud. Gwynne I. vii. 204 Again he stared ragefully and viciously. |