raveningn.

Brit.

/ˈravn̩ɪŋ/,

/ˈrav(ə)nɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈræv(ə)nɪŋ/

Forms: Middle English rauyning, Middle English ravenyng, Middle English–1500s rauenyng, 1500s raveninge, 1500s–1600s rauening, 1500s–1600s raueninge, 1600s– ravening, 1800s ravining.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ravin n.¹, -ing suffix¹; raven v., -ing suffix¹, ravening adj.

Etymology: Either < ravin n.¹ + -ing suffix¹, or < raven v. (although this is first attested later) + -ing suffix¹. Sense 1 may instead show conversion of ravening adj.In sense 3 perhaps by confusion with raving n.¹ Compare ravening adj. 2.

†1. With the. The devil, characterized as a plunderer or predator. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 87 Qui..A predonis faucibus..egit... Þe lord..Þat..fendes dyȝinge haþ brokun..fro þe chekes of þe Rauyning Dyliuered us.

2. The action of raven v. (in various senses); an instance of this. In early use also: †proneness to or propensity for such action; rapacity, greed, predatoriness (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > sacking, raiding, or looting > [noun] > going about with intention of

raveninga1398

forage1481

foraging1481

outriding?c1500

marauding1684

maraud1804

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 293^v The catte..is..communliche y-cleped catus, and haþ þat name of rauenyng [L. a captura], for he rauyssheþ mys and rattes.

c1485 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (BL Add.) 793 Ravenyng [c1405 Ellesmere Now comth hasardrie..of which comth..chidynges and alle rauynes, blasphemynge, and reneiynge of god].

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke xi. f. xcv^v Youre inwarde parties are full of raveninge and wickednes.

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 49^v The Wolfe, and all other beastes, those especially which liue by rauening.

1580 J. Bell tr. J. Foxe Pope Confuted i. f. 35 Such woluishe rauening in your decrees, but to forclose vs all saluation in heauen, and all peace on earth.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. i. §7. 14 The art of rauening, which is familiar to such as liue or border vpon desarts.

1655 R. Turner tr. H. C. Agrippa Fourth Bk. Occult Philos. 168 He did believe his swine were safely defended from the ravening of the wolves.

a1728 W. Wall Crit. Notes Old Test. (1734) II. 133 By the violence of Lebanon, interpreters say, is understood the ravening of lions, bears and other wild beasts which were rife in Lebanon.

1762 P. Lodvill tr. Orthodox Confession Catholic & Apostolic Eastern-church iii. 171 Gluttony, or Ravening, is the devouring an immoderate Quantity of Meat and Drink, more than usual and necessary.

1835 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 5 May 3/1 The great moneyed monopoly checked its ravenings like death.

a1873 S. Wilberforce Ess. (1874) I. 285 An instance of selfish ravening for wealth.

1928 L. H. Jenks Our Cuban Colony ii. 11 There was serious fear that..Spain's sovereignty might..be susceptibly diminished, to satisfy, perhaps, the ravenings of her British bondholders.

1987 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Apr. 395/2 It is about the ravening of time and the puniness of memory's attempts to withstand it.

2000 Callaloo Winter 178 The ringing..stokes my desire to speak to Kitty's husband until it becomes a ravening.

†3. Madness, raving. Also in plural (cf. raving n.¹ 2). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness > fit of madness

widden-dreamOE

resea1300

ragec1330

lunacy1541

raving1549

fit1594

moon1607

ravening1607

lunesa1616

rapturea1616

widdrim1644

raptus1740

brain storm1890

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 733 The biting of a weasell is reported..in his rauening or madnesse, not to be lesse hurtfull then the bitings of mad dogs.

a1664 M. Frank LI Serm. (1672) 572 The factious and discontented decisions (shall I call them, or ravenings rather) of ignorant and malicious Teachers.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iii. vi. 142 The overgreat and confused motion of these Idea's..makes ravenings, as in persons drunk, phrentick, [etc.].

1778 J. Menzies Humble Attempt to vindicate Princ. & Char. Burgher Seceders 80 He pitied his excommunicators, and looked upon their conduct in the same manner, that he would on the ravenings of a person in the rage and heat of a fever.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

raveningadj.

Brit.

/ˈravn̩ɪŋ/,

/ˈrav(ə)nɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈræv(ə)nɪŋ/

Forms: Middle English ravenand, Middle English–1500s ravenyng, 1500s raueninge, 1500s rauenyng, 1500s rauenynge, 1500s rauining, 1500s ravenynge, 1500s–1600s rauening, 1500s–1600s rauenning, 1500s– ravening, 1600s ravenning, 1600s 1800s ravining; Scottish pre-1700 rauening, pre-1700 raveening, pre-1700 revenning, pre-1700 1700s– ravening.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ravin n.¹, -ing suffix²; raven v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: Either < ravin n.¹ + -ing suffix², or < raven v. (although this is first attested later) + -ing suffix². Perhaps compare slightly earlier ravening n. 1.In sense 2 perhaps by confusion with raving adj.² Compare ravening n. 3.

1. That ravens (in various senses of the verb); rapacious, voracious, bloodthirsty; ravenously hungry. In quot. c1390 as n.: a person who ravens; the Devil.Applied esp. to wolves.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > [adjective] > having (good) appetite > greedy or voracious

yevereOE

greedy971

reavingOE

fretewil?c1225

ravissantc1300

ravishingc1350

ravenous?1387

raveningc1390

ravisablea1425

eating1483

yeverous1483

savourousa1492

yevery1531

vorax1535

gluttonisha1586

falconish1587

ravin1615

vulturous1623

ravened1627

gorb?1635

esurine1687

voracious1693

gastrolatrous1694

tigerantica1704

gutsy1803

bulimious1816

polyphagian1825

yevrisome1825

edacious1829

polyphagous1837

tigerocious1874

bulimic1886

hyperphagic1943

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [adjective] > rapacious

ravenousc1425

rapinous1484

ravening1548

rapacious1572

scambling1600

large-handeda1616

tenter-hooking1615

vulturizing1650

vulturian1659

leech-like1682

vulturine1721

vulturish1826

vulturous1843

c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 87 Fro þe chekes of þe Rauyning Dyliuered us.

c1400 T. Wimbledon Serm. (Helm. LJ.2.2) (1967) 91 (MED) Raven and [read Ravenand; 1387 Corpus Cambr. rauenes fisches haueþ sum mesure].

a1500 Let. Alexander 89 in Mediaeval Stud. (1979) 41 121 (MED) Thei..wenten as we in to excessiblete of serpentis and Ravenyng [L. rabida] wield and woode beestis, vnknowen kyndes of Regiouns inbrought and ledde.

1530 Prol. Numeri in Bible (Tyndale) sig. A.vii Am I not a wilye fox & a raueninge wolfe in a lambes skynne?

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. v. 43 He hathe well cutte of his rauenyng ryght handle.

1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx xxxii. sig. N ^v The sheepeherdes to take Wolues and other rauening beastes, haunting their Flockes had digged a verie deepe & daungerous Pit.

1643 W. Hamond Madagascar 4 As for Lions, Tigers, and other ravening beasts, we neither saw nor heard of any.

a1674 J. Milton Char. Long Parl. (1681) 4 The Ravening Seizure of innumerable Thieves in Office.

1723 R. Coleire Serm. Isleworth Rape & Murder A. Bristow 23 Even a due preparation for death is often obstructed by the ravening cries of hunger and thirst.

1798 H. Brand Huniades iv. x. 106 Thou shalt behold my hated foe, Corvinus, Piece-meal devour'd, by our fierce ravening dogs.

1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 26 Some ships lay feeding The ravening fire.

1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid ii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 125 Wolves whom ravening hunger has driven all blind on the path.

a1901 J. Fiske Ess. Hist. & Lit. (1902) i. ii. 97 His mind was no doubt ill balanced, or, to use one of his own favourite words, it was ‘unhinged’ by colossal vanity and ravening selfishness.

1926 Burlington Mag. Oct. 179/2 The ravening wolf denotes the past, which greedily devours the memory of all past things.

1957 A. C. Clarke Deep Range xx. 179 Sometimes the small masters had protected them from the Killers, turning aside the ravening packs before they could tear their living victims into fragments.

1992 Economist 21 Nov. 71/1 There is no reason why homosexuals, any more than heterosexuals, should roam bases like ravening wolves.

†2. Mad, raging, rabid. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [adjective] > rabies

woodc1000

rabiate1520

ravening1599

rabid1650

rabitic1887

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > frenzied or raging

aweddeOE

woodc1000

woodlyc1000

wildc1300

franticc1390

ramage1440

welling woodc1440

staringc1449

rammistc1455

rabious1460

horn-wood?a1500

rammisha1500

enragea1522

frenzic1547

wood-like1578

horn-mad1579

woodful1582

frenzicala1586

ragefula1586

rabid1594

ravening1599

ravenous1607

Pythic1640

exorbitant1668

frenziful1726

haggard-wild1786

frenzied1796

maenadic1830

berserk1867

up the wall1951

ballistic1981

1599 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie (new ed.) i. iv. sig. D5 To liue happily (I heare thee boast,) from thy Philosophy, And from thy selfe, ô rauening lunacy!

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 754 A rauening Wolfe by his biting bringeth the same danger, as a rauenous Dogge.

?a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) iii. sig. F4^v In my ravening fit told this old fool, That thou and I did practise Momford's fall.

1707 J. Dunton Athenian Sport 432/1 The least Adversity or frown of Fortune dejects their Minds, and lays them open either to a ravening Fury, or a base Bewailing.

Derivatives

ˈraveningly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adverb] > eating voraciously

greedilyc1000

frecklyc1275

ravenously?a1425

frechedlyc1450

raveningly1533

devouringly1552

locust-like1596

gulchingly1598

greedy1599

voraciously1752

1533 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge 100 b Gredily and rauenninglye, or gluttonously to deuour veri moch.

1600 L. Lewkenor tr. A. de Torquemada Spanish Mandeuile f. 146 The Wolues..very raueningly with open mouth assayling them.

1904 ‘A. Dale’ Wanted: Cook xviii. 328 It [sc. dramatic justice] pursued us relentlessly, raveningly.

2004 Guardian (Nexis) 19 Mar. 3 He is not only a martial Macbeth but also raveningly and nakedly ambitious.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ravening
释义	raveningn. Brit. /ˈravn̩ɪŋ/, /ˈrav(ə)nɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈræv(ə)nɪŋ/ Forms: Middle English rauyning, Middle English ravenyng, Middle English–1500s rauenyng, 1500s raveninge, 1500s–1600s rauening, 1500s–1600s raueninge, 1600s– ravening, 1800s ravining. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ravin n.¹, -ing suffix¹; raven v., -ing suffix¹, ravening adj. Etymology: Either < ravin n.¹ + -ing suffix¹, or < raven v. (although this is first attested later) + -ing suffix¹. Sense 1 may instead show conversion of ravening adj.In sense 3 perhaps by confusion with raving n.¹ Compare ravening adj. 2. †1. With the. The devil, characterized as a plunderer or predator. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 87 Qui..A predonis faucibus..egit... Þe lord..Þat..fendes dyȝinge haþ brokun..fro þe chekes of þe Rauyning Dyliuered us. 2. The action of raven v. (in various senses); an instance of this. In early use also: †proneness to or propensity for such action; rapacity, greed, predatoriness (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > sacking, raiding, or looting > [noun] > going about with intention of raveninga1398 forage1481 foraging1481 outriding?c1500 marauding1684 maraud1804 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 293^v The catte..is..communliche y-cleped catus, and haþ þat name of rauenyng [L. a captura], for he rauyssheþ mys and rattes. c1485 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (BL Add.) 793 Ravenyng [c1405 Ellesmere Now comth hasardrie..of which comth..chidynges and alle rauynes, blasphemynge, and reneiynge of god]. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke xi. f. xcv^v Youre inwarde parties are full of raveninge and wickednes. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 49^v The Wolfe, and all other beastes, those especially which liue by rauening. 1580 J. Bell tr. J. Foxe Pope Confuted i. f. 35 Such woluishe rauening in your decrees, but to forclose vs all saluation in heauen, and all peace on earth. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. i. §7. 14 The art of rauening, which is familiar to such as liue or border vpon desarts. 1655 R. Turner tr. H. C. Agrippa Fourth Bk. Occult Philos. 168 He did believe his swine were safely defended from the ravening of the wolves. a1728 W. Wall Crit. Notes Old Test. (1734) II. 133 By the violence of Lebanon, interpreters say, is understood the ravening of lions, bears and other wild beasts which were rife in Lebanon. 1762 P. Lodvill tr. Orthodox Confession Catholic & Apostolic Eastern-church iii. 171 Gluttony, or Ravening, is the devouring an immoderate Quantity of Meat and Drink, more than usual and necessary. 1835 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 5 May 3/1 The great moneyed monopoly checked its ravenings like death. a1873 S. Wilberforce Ess. (1874) I. 285 An instance of selfish ravening for wealth. 1928 L. H. Jenks Our Cuban Colony ii. 11 There was serious fear that..Spain's sovereignty might..be susceptibly diminished, to satisfy, perhaps, the ravenings of her British bondholders. 1987 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Apr. 395/2 It is about the ravening of time and the puniness of memory's attempts to withstand it. 2000 Callaloo Winter 178 The ringing..stokes my desire to speak to Kitty's husband until it becomes a ravening. †3. Madness, raving. Also in plural (cf. raving n.¹ 2). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness > fit of madness widden-dreamOE resea1300 ragec1330 lunacy1541 raving1549 fit1594 moon1607 ravening1607 lunesa1616 rapturea1616 widdrim1644 raptus1740 brain storm1890 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 733 The biting of a weasell is reported..in his rauening or madnesse, not to be lesse hurtfull then the bitings of mad dogs. a1664 M. Frank LI Serm. (1672) 572 The factious and discontented decisions (shall I call them, or ravenings rather) of ignorant and malicious Teachers. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iii. vi. 142 The overgreat and confused motion of these Idea's..makes ravenings, as in persons drunk, phrentick, [etc.]. 1778 J. Menzies Humble Attempt to vindicate Princ. & Char. Burgher Seceders 80 He pitied his excommunicators, and looked upon their conduct in the same manner, that he would on the ravenings of a person in the rage and heat of a fever. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). raveningadj. Brit. /ˈravn̩ɪŋ/, /ˈrav(ə)nɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈræv(ə)nɪŋ/ Forms: Middle English ravenand, Middle English–1500s ravenyng, 1500s raueninge, 1500s rauenyng, 1500s rauenynge, 1500s rauining, 1500s ravenynge, 1500s–1600s rauening, 1500s–1600s rauenning, 1500s– ravening, 1600s ravenning, 1600s 1800s ravining; Scottish pre-1700 rauening, pre-1700 raveening, pre-1700 revenning, pre-1700 1700s– ravening. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ravin n.¹, -ing suffix²; raven v., -ing suffix². Etymology: Either < ravin n.¹ + -ing suffix², or < raven v. (although this is first attested later) + -ing suffix². Perhaps compare slightly earlier ravening n. 1.In sense 2 perhaps by confusion with raving adj.² Compare ravening n. 3. 1. That ravens (in various senses of the verb); rapacious, voracious, bloodthirsty; ravenously hungry. In quot. c1390 as n.: a person who ravens; the Devil.Applied esp. to wolves. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > [adjective] > having (good) appetite > greedy or voracious yevereOE greedy971 reavingOE fretewil?c1225 ravissantc1300 ravishingc1350 ravenous?1387 raveningc1390 ravisablea1425 eating1483 yeverous1483 savourousa1492 yevery1531 vorax1535 gluttonisha1586 falconish1587 ravin1615 vulturous1623 ravened1627 gorb?1635 esurine1687 voracious1693 gastrolatrous1694 tigerantica1704 gutsy1803 bulimious1816 polyphagian1825 yevrisome1825 edacious1829 polyphagous1837 tigerocious1874 bulimic1886 hyperphagic1943 the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [adjective] > rapacious ravenousc1425 rapinous1484 ravening1548 rapacious1572 scambling1600 large-handeda1616 tenter-hooking1615 vulturizing1650 vulturian1659 leech-like1682 vulturine1721 vulturish1826 vulturous1843 c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 87 Fro þe chekes of þe Rauyning Dyliuered us. c1400 T. Wimbledon Serm. (Helm. LJ.2.2) (1967) 91 (MED) Raven and [read Ravenand; 1387 Corpus Cambr. rauenes fisches haueþ sum mesure]. a1500 Let. Alexander 89 in Mediaeval Stud. (1979) 41 121 (MED) Thei..wenten as we in to excessiblete of serpentis and Ravenyng [L. rabida] wield and woode beestis, vnknowen kyndes of Regiouns inbrought and ledde. 1530 Prol. Numeri in Bible (Tyndale) sig. A.vii Am I not a wilye fox & a raueninge wolfe in a lambes skynne? 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. v. 43 He hathe well cutte of his rauenyng ryght handle. 1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx xxxii. sig. N ^v The sheepeherdes to take Wolues and other rauening beastes, haunting their Flockes had digged a verie deepe & daungerous Pit. 1643 W. Hamond Madagascar 4 As for Lions, Tigers, and other ravening beasts, we neither saw nor heard of any. a1674 J. Milton Char. Long Parl. (1681) 4 The Ravening Seizure of innumerable Thieves in Office. 1723 R. Coleire Serm. Isleworth Rape & Murder A. Bristow 23 Even a due preparation for death is often obstructed by the ravening cries of hunger and thirst. 1798 H. Brand Huniades iv. x. 106 Thou shalt behold my hated foe, Corvinus, Piece-meal devour'd, by our fierce ravening dogs. 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 26 Some ships lay feeding The ravening fire. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid ii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 125 Wolves whom ravening hunger has driven all blind on the path. a1901 J. Fiske Ess. Hist. & Lit. (1902) i. ii. 97 His mind was no doubt ill balanced, or, to use one of his own favourite words, it was ‘unhinged’ by colossal vanity and ravening selfishness. 1926 Burlington Mag. Oct. 179/2 The ravening wolf denotes the past, which greedily devours the memory of all past things. 1957 A. C. Clarke Deep Range xx. 179 Sometimes the small masters had protected them from the Killers, turning aside the ravening packs before they could tear their living victims into fragments. 1992 Economist 21 Nov. 71/1 There is no reason why homosexuals, any more than heterosexuals, should roam bases like ravening wolves. †2. Mad, raging, rabid. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [adjective] > rabies woodc1000 rabiate1520 ravening1599 rabid1650 rabitic1887 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > frenzied or raging aweddeOE woodc1000 woodlyc1000 wildc1300 franticc1390 ramage1440 welling woodc1440 staringc1449 rammistc1455 rabious1460 horn-wood?a1500 rammisha1500 enragea1522 frenzic1547 wood-like1578 horn-mad1579 woodful1582 frenzicala1586 ragefula1586 rabid1594 ravening1599 ravenous1607 Pythic1640 exorbitant1668 frenziful1726 haggard-wild1786 frenzied1796 maenadic1830 berserk1867 up the wall1951 ballistic1981 1599 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie (new ed.) i. iv. sig. D5 To liue happily (I heare thee boast,) from thy Philosophy, And from thy selfe, ô rauening lunacy! 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 754 A rauening Wolfe by his biting bringeth the same danger, as a rauenous Dogge. ?a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) iii. sig. F4^v In my ravening fit told this old fool, That thou and I did practise Momford's fall. 1707 J. Dunton Athenian Sport 432/1 The least Adversity or frown of Fortune dejects their Minds, and lays them open either to a ravening Fury, or a base Bewailing. Derivatives ˈraveningly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adverb] > eating voraciously greedilyc1000 frecklyc1275 ravenously?a1425 frechedlyc1450 raveningly1533 devouringly1552 locust-like1596 gulchingly1598 greedy1599 voraciously1752 1533 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge 100 b Gredily and rauenninglye, or gluttonously to deuour veri moch. 1600 L. Lewkenor tr. A. de Torquemada Spanish Mandeuile f. 146 The Wolues..very raueningly with open mouth assayling them. 1904 ‘A. Dale’ Wanted: Cook xviii. 328 It [sc. dramatic justice] pursued us relentlessly, raveningly. 2004 Guardian (Nexis) 19 Mar. 3 He is not only a martial Macbeth but also raveningly and nakedly ambitious. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1390adj.c1390
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