red-bloodedadj.

1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. 506 It can scarcely be supposed that this nation of animals could have been produced by the same kind of living filament, as the red-blooded classes.

1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 370 These organs are the same in the white as in the red-blooded animals.

1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 388 The Annelides,..or Red-blooded Worms, constitute the first [class].

1882 Lancet 23 Sept. 514/1 The novelty..consists in the use of a diluted solution of blood obtained from any red-blooded animal as a gauge.

1941 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 52 59/1 The blood of primates and red blooded animals is in the beginning colorless thus resembling the blood of the invertebrates.

2006 Nitric Oxide 15 190 The presence of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) was investigated in the ventricle of..the hemoglobinless icefish Chionodraco hamatus and its red-blooded counterpart, Trematomus bernacchii.

1836 L. Ritchie Magician III. i. 11 ‘A perilous adventure, if report speak true!’ ‘Not for our red-blooded friend,’ said Beauchamp; ‘for a Scot is like your cat-o'-the-woods, who can creep as well as spring.’

1860 Atlantic Monthly May 608/1 It didn't happen to strike the Colonel favorably. He had a little red-blooded manhood in him.

1888 W. Whitman in Cent. Mag. (1911) Dec. 254/2 John's letter appeals to me..because of its uncompromising red-blooded espousal of the book.

1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes xix. 257 Tarzan..did what no red-blooded man needs lessons in doing.

1923 Daily Mail 28 Feb. 10 (advt.) It's a rip-roaring, red-blooded yarn that no man or woman will be able to read unmoved.

1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xxxiii. 387 To me he sounded like any red-blooded American businessman.

2001 Arena Aug. 102/3 At the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards she made every red-blooded male sit up and take notice.

1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold iv. iii. 123 Sit down, sit down, and eat, And, when again red-blooded, speak again.

1897 Los Angeles Times 17 Feb. 5/4 The second is red-bloodedness—which comprehends all things I would have you understand.

1918 Mansfield (Ohio) News 11 Jan. 8/1 It takes a redblooded man to point out your shortcomings,..and it requires more red-bloodedness to accept and appreciate the criticism.

2001 Evening Standard (Palmerston North, N.Z.) (Nexis) 7 May (Features section) 7 The Church remains a patriarchal institution which tolerates red-bloodedness in men and doesn't do enough to protect women.