firebrandn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈfʌɪəbrand/, U.S.

/ˈfaɪ(ə)rˌbrænd/

Forms: see fire n. and int. and brand n.; also early Middle English furburondes (plural, perhaps transmission error).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fire n., brand n.

Etymology: < fire n. + brand n. Compare Middle Low German vǖrbrant piece of burning wood.

A. n.

†1. A spark, a flame. Obsolete.

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > fire-spark

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c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12780 Floȝen of heore hæȝene swulc fur-burondes [c1300 Otho furbrondes].

2. A piece of burning wood, esp. one used as a torch or to ignite something.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > torch or brand

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > fire-brand

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c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) l. 136 (MED) He..kypte anon in his hond A gret muche fir brond.

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 6838 Þe kyng seiȝ a leem so fire-bronde [a1425 Linc. Inn fuyr brond].

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 57 (MED) A wikked man..kest a brynnand fyrebrand at oure Lord.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. ix. l. 159 With hait fyre brand [L. facem] in hand vp dois scho ryss.

1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. I3 Tisiphone..doth shake..Her flaming fire brond.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. 89 A Torch or Fire-brand.

1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 138 As the Proverb is, he could have bitt a Fire-brand, had it stood in his way.

1740 E. Smith Forty Two Serm. I. iii. 55 Nathan the Prophet..snatched him as a Firebrand out of the Fire.

1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 10 Eyes, which glowed like firebrands.

1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Fire-brand inflamed ppr., fire brands, borne in coat-armour, are generally represented raguly.

1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid i, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 95 We..Pray thee the firebrand fell from the Trojan vessels to keep.

1931 J. Gavorse Suetonius' Lives Twelve Caesars vi. 268 They caught them on their estates with tow and firebrands.

1962 C. M. Turnbull Forest People viii. 161 Two youths holding glowing firebrands in their hands.

2003 Nature 16 Jan. 205/1 [In a bush fire] the messmate stringybark eucalyptus..can shoot out huge numbers of firebrands that can travel up to five kilometers.

3. A person who, or (occasionally) a thing which, kindles strife, inflames passions, etc., esp. in a political context; an agitator. Later also more generally: a person who is full of passion or energy.

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society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > causing dissension > one who

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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. vii. 4 Thin herte be not ferd of the two tailes of these smokende fyr brondis [L. titionum fumigantium istorum].

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vii. xxix. 393 From that time forth not onely the hereticks but such as were of his owne faith and opinion called Nestorius a firebrande.

1583 Ld. Burghley Execution of Iustice sig. B.iiii D. Sanders the Popes firebrand in Ireland.

1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 104 This man..became a principall firebrande [L. facem] of the warre.

1640 J. Gough Strange Discov. iii. i. sig. F^v Thou art the fire brand that hast kindled this Combustion in my heart.

1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 67 Meer Firebrands in Society, that kindle and lay wast where-ever they come.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 293 And so this firebrand of Priviledge inflamed the City at that time.

1791 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 278 These fierce republicans, even the very firebrands of the Jacobins.

1836 London & Westm. Rev. 24 82 A new race of parsons sprung up, half political leaders, half-fanatical fire-brands.

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands I. iv. 132 Not peace, but a firebrand..had the King held forth to his subjects.

1895 W. Morris Child Christopher & Goldilind the Fair I. xviii. 226 Thou art a firebrand, my Lady!

1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey ii. i. 117 The fellow was clearly a firebrand!

1968 G. Daws Shoal of Time vii. 291 Every so often a firebrand like Robert Wilcox would call them to arms.

1991 N.Y. Times 13 Oct. ii. 28/1 He has evolved into a convincing barnyard firebrand who addresses teen-age ennui and prairie politics with snappy song hooks, earnest folk-blues and bullish garage-rock.

2013 Financial Times 17 Apr. 4 The former electrical engineer and party official, known as more of a technocrat than a political firebrand, has already taken over some of Mr Castro's ceremonial functions.

4. A person who is doomed to burn in hell, or who deserves to do so. Usually in firebrand of hell and variants. Now rare.

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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > hellishness > [noun] > person > deserving to burn

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society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > wicked person > deserving to burn

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society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > impiety > [noun] > person

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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > reprobation > [noun] > person affected by

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a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 7421 Or he us made for noght els to dwelle In erth, bot to be fyre brandes in helle.

1551 R. Crowley Pleasure & Payne sig. Bvii Eternall fyre Is redy for eche hell fyrebrande.

1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. i. f. ccccxxviii^v I was by nature the chylde of wrath and a very fyrebrande of hell.

1643 ‘A. B. C.’ Dumbritons Castle (single sheet) Hels-fire-brands, and unnaturall vipers wee, Who wish'd our Countrey lost.

1689 B. Keach Distressed Sion Relieved 144 That brave Isle's Metropolis was burned By thy accursed fire-brands of Hell.

1742 G. Whitefield Nine Serm. iv. 114 He is freely justified from all his Sins..notwithstanding he was a Firebrand of Hell before.

1788 R. Moody Moabite's Horn cut Off 44 Judas, the grand firebrand of hell.

1989 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Foucault's Pendulum lxxiii. 413 Oh, parasite! How I hate that firebrand of hell!

5. A mark or brand made with a hot iron; an iron used to make such a mark. Cf. firebrand v. Now rare (Australian and New Zealand in later use).

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society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > [noun] > a brand

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1570 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Lekprevik) xii. f. 181 Ane fyre brand [1488 Adv. fyr-brund] in his foirheid he bair.

1675 London Gaz. No. 1049/4 A speckled Mare..marked with a Fire-brand on the near shoulder.

1704 London Gaz. No. 4037/8 A..Cart Gelding..a Firebrand on the near Shoulder.

1826 Hobart Town Gaz. 3 June Sheep which had been marked with the firebrand found near the yard.

1855 Victoria (Austral.) Votes & Proc. Legislative Council, 1854–5 103 Every such mark or brand shall be the usual brand of the owner of such sheep and shall if not a firebrand be not less than three inches in length.

1912 Advertiser (Adelaide) 28 May 8/6 In the Melbourne abattoirs there was a system..of putting a small fire-brand on the shoulder and leg and loin of each side of a carcase.

1936 Auckland Star 10 Feb. 6/6 They used to spoil good calf skins and the look of horses with firebrands.

†6. Any of several songbirds with red or orange markings: (a) English regional (more fully firebrand-tail) the common redstart, Phoenicurus phoenicurus (cf. fiery brandtail n. at fiery adj. Compounds 3); (b) U.S. regional either of two American warblers, the American redstart, Setophaga ruticilla, and the Blackburnian warbler, S. fusca. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Phoenicurus > species phoenicurus (redstart)

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1848 Zoologist 6 2290 There [sc. in Gloucestershire] also the redstart is a ‘red firebrand-tail’, here [sc. in Worcestershire] it is simply the ‘red-tail’.

1888 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 354/1 I laid my head back among the ferns, to wait till the small fire-brand calmed down a little.

1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know iv. 66 Who would believe that this small firebrand..is a cousin of the sombre oven-bird that walks so daintily and leisurely over the ground?

1916 Wilson Bull. 28 141 Redstart—Setophaga ruticilla. This little firebrand of the woodland was noted hardly often enough to be called fairly common.

B. adj. (attributive).

Designating a person who kindles strife, inflames passions, etc.; characteristic of such a person. Later also: energetic, passionate.

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society > society and the community > dissent > [adjective] > causing or desiring dissension

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1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 109 Our fire-brand brother Paris burnes vs all.

1734 Corn-cutter's Jrnl. 1 Oct. So noble and so generous an Animal, as a Firebrand, New, Modern Patriot.

1839 United Service Jrnl. Mar. 318 A hundred such specimens of firebrand declamation as the following may be found in the American journals.

1886 Catholic World Dec. 382 It is in the hands of that young firebrand lawyer O'Donoghue.

1910 J. London Theft i. 61 They think I am going to make a firebrand speech.

1983 N.Y. Amsterdam News 2 July 20/5 A firebrand singer with unquestioned ability to captivate his audience.

1993 C. T. Rowan Dream Makers, Dream Breakers xx. 349 Truman was not a firebrand liberal.

2013 Independent 4 Jan. 21/1 Mega-churches run by charismatic firebrand preachers.

Compounds

firebrand new adj. regional (now rare) completely new, brand new.

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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > brand new

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1882 E. L. Chamberlain Gloss. W. Worcs. Words 12 Fire-brand-new, quite new.

1951 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 37 744 One can only lay his obtuseness to lack of historic background. To him, these circumstances are firebrand new.

† firebrand pin n. Obsolete rare a peg made from a firebrand (sense A. 2).

ΚΠ

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 328 Vnderdelue The rootes, & dryue in a firbronnd pyn [L. tede clauus].

Derivatives

ˈfirebrandism n. the behaviour of a firebrand (sense A. 3); political agitation.

ΚΠ

1853 Standard 21 Dec. This firebrandism of Rome wickedly teaches that her subjects may rebel and dethrone her.

1919 Nonpartisan Leader 3 Mar. 6/2 Any move to remedy marketing abuses..was branded as ‘firebrandism’, or ‘socialism’.

2012 Politics Daily (Nexis) 30 Aug. A very high-level intellectual firebrandism that is rarely seen from Republicans these days.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	firebrand
释义	firebrandn.adj. Brit. /ˈfʌɪəbrand/, U.S. /ˈfaɪ(ə)rˌbrænd/ Forms: see fire n. and int. and brand n.; also early Middle English furburondes (plural, perhaps transmission error). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fire n., brand n. Etymology: < fire n. + brand n. Compare Middle Low German vǖrbrant piece of burning wood. A. n. †1. A spark, a flame. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > fire-spark sparkc725 iselc1000 speldc1050 firebrandc1275 sprankc1300 sparklec1330 funka1393 sparklinga1529 fanglea1657 flanker1840 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12780 Floȝen of heore hæȝene swulc fur-burondes [c1300 Otho furbrondes]. 2. A piece of burning wood, esp. one used as a torch or to ignite something. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > torch or brand fire stickc1300 firebrandc1330 fire-blazea1500 firing?c1500 stick of firec1510 lunt1550 tede1562 fire-link1579 fire cane1644 brand1810 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > fire-brand brandc950 fire stickc1300 firebrandc1330 stick of firec1510 fire-link1579 fire cane1644 c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) l. 136 (MED) He..kypte anon in his hond A gret muche fir brond. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 6838 Þe kyng seiȝ a leem so fire-bronde [a1425 Linc. Inn fuyr brond]. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 57 (MED) A wikked man..kest a brynnand fyrebrand at oure Lord. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. ix. l. 159 With hait fyre brand [L. facem] in hand vp dois scho ryss. 1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. I3 Tisiphone..doth shake..Her flaming fire brond. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. 89 A Torch or Fire-brand. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 138 As the Proverb is, he could have bitt a Fire-brand, had it stood in his way. View more context for this quotation 1740 E. Smith Forty Two Serm. I. iii. 55 Nathan the Prophet..snatched him as a Firebrand out of the Fire. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 10 Eyes, which glowed like firebrands. 1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Fire-brand inflamed ppr., fire brands, borne in coat-armour, are generally represented raguly. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid i, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 95 We..Pray thee the firebrand fell from the Trojan vessels to keep. 1931 J. Gavorse Suetonius' Lives Twelve Caesars vi. 268 They caught them on their estates with tow and firebrands. 1962 C. M. Turnbull Forest People viii. 161 Two youths holding glowing firebrands in their hands. 2003 Nature 16 Jan. 205/1 [In a bush fire] the messmate stringybark eucalyptus..can shoot out huge numbers of firebrands that can travel up to five kilometers. 3. A person who, or (occasionally) a thing which, kindles strife, inflames passions, etc., esp. in a political context; an agitator. Later also more generally: a person who is full of passion or energy. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > causing dissension > one who sower1380 firebranda1382 barratorc1430 makebate1529 bate-makera1564 mischief-master1567 boutefeu?1584 make-debate1588 breed-bate1593 kindle-fire1595 brew-bate1602 brand1608 fling-brand1616 make-strife1617 mischief-monger1620 blow-coal1622 kindle-coal1630 fire spirit1647 mischief-maker1675 mischief-doer1822 mixer1938 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. vii. 4 Thin herte be not ferd of the two tailes of these smokende fyr brondis [L. titionum fumigantium istorum]. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vii. xxix. 393 From that time forth not onely the hereticks but such as were of his owne faith and opinion called Nestorius a firebrande. 1583 Ld. Burghley Execution of Iustice sig. B.iiii D. Sanders the Popes firebrand in Ireland. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 104 This man..became a principall firebrande [L. facem] of the warre. 1640 J. Gough Strange Discov. iii. i. sig. F^v Thou art the fire brand that hast kindled this Combustion in my heart. 1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 67 Meer Firebrands in Society, that kindle and lay wast where-ever they come. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 293 And so this firebrand of Priviledge inflamed the City at that time. 1791 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 278 These fierce republicans, even the very firebrands of the Jacobins. 1836 London & Westm. Rev. 24 82 A new race of parsons sprung up, half political leaders, half-fanatical fire-brands. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands I. iv. 132 Not peace, but a firebrand..had the King held forth to his subjects. 1895 W. Morris Child Christopher & Goldilind the Fair I. xviii. 226 Thou art a firebrand, my Lady! 1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey ii. i. 117 The fellow was clearly a firebrand! 1968 G. Daws Shoal of Time vii. 291 Every so often a firebrand like Robert Wilcox would call them to arms. 1991 N.Y. Times 13 Oct. ii. 28/1 He has evolved into a convincing barnyard firebrand who addresses teen-age ennui and prairie politics with snappy song hooks, earnest folk-blues and bullish garage-rock. 2013 Financial Times 17 Apr. 4 The former electrical engineer and party official, known as more of a technocrat than a political firebrand, has already taken over some of Mr Castro's ceremonial functions. 4. A person who is doomed to burn in hell, or who deserves to do so. Usually in firebrand of hell and variants. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > hellishness > [noun] > person > deserving to burn firebranda1425 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > wicked person > deserving to burn firebranda1425 society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > impiety > [noun] > person member of Satanc1384 firebranda1425 law-breakerc1440 malignant1597 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > reprobation > [noun] > person affected by firebranda1425 reproved1435 reprobate1532 reprobated1535 preterite1864 a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 7421 Or he us made for noght els to dwelle In erth, bot to be fyre brandes in helle. 1551 R. Crowley Pleasure & Payne sig. Bvii Eternall fyre Is redy for eche hell fyrebrande. 1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. i. f. ccccxxviii^v I was by nature the chylde of wrath and a very fyrebrande of hell. 1643 ‘A. B. C.’ Dumbritons Castle (single sheet) Hels-fire-brands, and unnaturall vipers wee, Who wish'd our Countrey lost. 1689 B. Keach Distressed Sion Relieved 144 That brave Isle's Metropolis was burned By thy accursed fire-brands of Hell. 1742 G. Whitefield Nine Serm. iv. 114 He is freely justified from all his Sins..notwithstanding he was a Firebrand of Hell before. 1788 R. Moody Moabite's Horn cut Off 44 Judas, the grand firebrand of hell. 1989 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Foucault's Pendulum lxxiii. 413 Oh, parasite! How I hate that firebrand of hell! 5. A mark or brand made with a hot iron; an iron used to make such a mark. Cf. firebrand v. Now rare (Australian and New Zealand in later use). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > [noun] > a brand stigmec1475 fire marka1525 brand1552 burn1563 firebrand1570 flesh-brand1646 brand-mark1656 stigmatism1664 burn-mark1675 fleur-de-lis1790 1570 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Lekprevik) xii. f. 181 Ane fyre brand [1488 Adv. fyr-brund] in his foirheid he bair. 1675 London Gaz. No. 1049/4 A speckled Mare..marked with a Fire-brand on the near shoulder. 1704 London Gaz. No. 4037/8 A..Cart Gelding..a Firebrand on the near Shoulder. 1826 Hobart Town Gaz. 3 June Sheep which had been marked with the firebrand found near the yard. 1855 Victoria (Austral.) Votes & Proc. Legislative Council, 1854–5 103 Every such mark or brand shall be the usual brand of the owner of such sheep and shall if not a firebrand be not less than three inches in length. 1912 Advertiser (Adelaide) 28 May 8/6 In the Melbourne abattoirs there was a system..of putting a small fire-brand on the shoulder and leg and loin of each side of a carcase. 1936 Auckland Star 10 Feb. 6/6 They used to spoil good calf skins and the look of horses with firebrands. †6. Any of several songbirds with red or orange markings: (a) English regional (more fully firebrand-tail) the common redstart, Phoenicurus phoenicurus (cf. fiery brandtail n. at fiery adj. Compounds 3); (b) U.S. regional either of two American warblers, the American redstart, Setophaga ruticilla, and the Blackburnian warbler, S. fusca. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Phoenicurus > species phoenicurus (redstart) redtail1544 redstart1553 stark1611 firetail1752 star finch1752 brandtail1802 redstart warbler1815 firebrand1848 fiery brandtail1853 fireflirt1883 1848 Zoologist 6 2290 There [sc. in Gloucestershire] also the redstart is a ‘red firebrand-tail’, here [sc. in Worcestershire] it is simply the ‘red-tail’. 1888 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 354/1 I laid my head back among the ferns, to wait till the small fire-brand calmed down a little. 1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know iv. 66 Who would believe that this small firebrand..is a cousin of the sombre oven-bird that walks so daintily and leisurely over the ground? 1916 Wilson Bull. 28 141 Redstart—Setophaga ruticilla. This little firebrand of the woodland was noted hardly often enough to be called fairly common. B. adj. (attributive). Designating a person who kindles strife, inflames passions, etc.; characteristic of such a person. Later also: energetic, passionate. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > [adjective] > causing or desiring dissension bate-making1533 makebatea1577 bate-breeding1594 firebrand1609 diversivolent1612 mischief-making1693 weaponized1988 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 109 Our fire-brand brother Paris burnes vs all. View more context for this quotation 1734 Corn-cutter's Jrnl. 1 Oct. So noble and so generous an Animal, as a Firebrand, New, Modern Patriot. 1839 United Service Jrnl. Mar. 318 A hundred such specimens of firebrand declamation as the following may be found in the American journals. 1886 Catholic World Dec. 382 It is in the hands of that young firebrand lawyer O'Donoghue. 1910 J. London Theft i. 61 They think I am going to make a firebrand speech. 1983 N.Y. Amsterdam News 2 July 20/5 A firebrand singer with unquestioned ability to captivate his audience. 1993 C. T. Rowan Dream Makers, Dream Breakers xx. 349 Truman was not a firebrand liberal. 2013 Independent 4 Jan. 21/1 Mega-churches run by charismatic firebrand preachers. Compounds firebrand new adj. regional (now rare) completely new, brand new. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > brand new span-newc1300 spon-new13.. brand-newc1570 spick and span new1579 new-new1592 fire-new1597 fiery-new1644 spick and span1665 split-new1695 spander-new1707 spank span-new1775 spick-span1815 spleet-new1818 brand-span-new1828 spick-span new1880 firebrand new1882 spanking new1886 spandy new1903 pin-new1967 box-fresh1990 1882 E. L. Chamberlain Gloss. W. Worcs. Words 12 Fire-brand-new, quite new. 1951 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 37 744 One can only lay his obtuseness to lack of historic background. To him, these circumstances are firebrand new. † firebrand pin n. Obsolete rare a peg made from a firebrand (sense A. 2). ΚΠ tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 328 Vnderdelue The rootes, & dryue in a firbronnd pyn [L. tede clauus]. Derivatives ˈfirebrandism n. the behaviour of a firebrand (sense A. 3); political agitation. ΚΠ 1853 Standard 21 Dec. This firebrandism of Rome wickedly teaches that her subjects may rebel and dethrone her. 1919 Nonpartisan Leader 3 Mar. 6/2 Any move to remedy marketing abuses..was branded as ‘firebrandism’, or ‘socialism’. 2012 Politics Daily (Nexis) 30 Aug. A very high-level intellectual firebrandism that is rarely seen from Republicans these days. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). firebrandv. Brit. /ˈfʌɪəbrand/, U.S. /ˈfaɪ(ə)rˌbrænd/, Australian English /ˈfɑeəbrænd/, New Zealand English /ˈfɑeəbrɛnd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fire n., brand v. Etymology: < fire n. + brand v. Australian and New Zealand in later use. transitive. To brand (an animal) using a hot iron. Also: to brand (a mark) on an animal using a hot iron. Cf. pitch brand v. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (transitive)] > brand or mark pitch1577 brand1587 pitch brand1593 pitch-mark1653 firebrand1673 print1708 1673 London Gaz. No. 764/4 The Gelding is brown..the Letter R firebranded on the farther buttock. 1728 Fog's Weekly Jrnl. 7 Dec. A Brown Mare..Firebranded upon her near Buttock with an Horseshoe, hanging downward. 1745 Daily Advertiser 22 May A brown or dusty Colour Gelding,..his near Foot behind white, and T M Firebranded on his near Shoulder. 1851 Argus (Melbourne) 10 Dec. He thought also that the mover had totally forgotten Mr Martin's Act, or he would never have spoken about firebranding sheep, when a pitch brand would do just as well. 1892 Southland (N.Z.) Times 27 June 2/8 They had now ceased firebranding bought sheep. 1951 Queensland Country Life 14 June He finds it better to firebrand stud cattle through mosquito netting than to use a chemical brand. 1997 L. Wallace Bitten by Bull Bug vii. 82 They were then fire-branded with an official ‘C’ as proof they'd passed the test. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1275v.1673
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