furorn.

1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 29 Considerest thou not the strengthe & force of my body and the furour of my swerde?

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iii. xxi. 219 A madde man duryng his fourour may not be reputed nor taken for enemye.

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxxv^v Where..wrath doth rayne with his furours.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xlvii. 162 Some oppressed..with the furoure of the see.

a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) ci. 1 What rage is this? What furour of what kynd?

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 191 Hoping that the Lord mighte be..turned from the furor of hys wrath.

1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. ii. 85 The furors of Nero.

1758 H. Walpole Catal. Royal Authors (1759) II. 122 A Lord, who with..some derangement of his intellects was so unlucky as not to have his furor of the true poetic sort.

1801 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting I. iii. 114 The enthusiastic furor of the god of war.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. ii. vi. 129 In mixed terror and furor.

1862 F. D. Maurice Mod. Philos. vi. §5. 209 The anti-papal furor of the king's youth.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. i. 1 This science in his perfection, can not grow, but by some diuine instinct, the Platonicks call it furor.

1757 S. Foote Author i. 13 I am afraid the poetic Furor may have betray'd me into some Indecency.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. i. 167 Rises into furor almost Pythic.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 218 Of these two kinds of divining..the latter is [characterized] by a fervency and elevation such as the ancients styled furor.

1860 ‘G. Eliot’ in Life (1885) II. 159 They [the pages] were written in a furor; but I dare say there is not a word different from what it would have been, if I had written them at the slowest pace.

1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit ii, in Tale of Tub 320 He seldom was without some Female Patients among them, for the furor.

1865 Cornhill Mag. July 100 Like most old churches, Earndale had suffered under the beautifying furor of the eighteenth century.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation v. 316 The mastery which the athletic furor has established over all minds in this place.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xx. 278 Mackaye grumbled at my writing so much, and so fast, and sneered about the furor scribendi.

a1873 J. S. Mill Three Ess. Relig. (1874) 33 The fire of London, which is believed to have had so salutary an effect on the healthiness of the city, would have produced that effect just as much if it had been really the work of the ‘furor papisticus’ so long commemorated on the Monument.

1922 A. Huxley Let. 8 June (1969) 207 His parents-in-law elect are extremely averse to being anything more than elect—on the score, I gather, of poor Robert's..furious furor poeticus.

1928 Daily Tel. 11 Sept. 12/1 Once upon a time Macaulay complained of the furor biographicus or lues Boswelliana which makes biographies an orgy of praise.

1960 Times 2 Dec. 20/6 From the early furor teutonicus to the present mood of lyric vitality, the achievement..is impressive.

1963 P. H. Johnson Night & Silence v. 27 The man was obviously wild with excitement, with furor academicus.

1964 F. Bowers Bibliogr. & Textual Crit. v. iv. 151 A balance that is sometimes neglected in the furor poeticus of textual speculation.

1964 Economist 31 Oct. 507/1 The obsessive furor scribendi which..drove him to proliferate lectures, addresses and prefaces.