a. and adv. Obs. [var. of VENGEABLE a.]
1. Vengeful, vindictive.
1548. Cooper, Elyot’s Dict., Dirus,… vengible, cruell, terrible.
1595. Locrine, I. ii. 16. The desperate god Cuprit, with one of his vengible birdbolts, hath shot me vnto the heele.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 461. These also are the Epethites of the Lionesse:… bold, stony-harted, vengible.
1609. Holland, Amm. Marcell., 321. A vengible wayt-layer,… by bloudie grudges and displeasures doing much mischief.
b. Grievous, severe.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 4. Impose they doe upon them hard and vengible charges to execute.
2. Remarkable, extraordinary. Also as adv.
1594. Lyly, Mother Bombie, III. ii. He spake nothing but sentences, but they were vengible long ones.
1602. Contention betw. Liberality & Prodigality, IV. ii. Thornes, thistles, and nettles most horrible stingers, Rauens, grypes, and gryphons, oh vengible wringers.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 78. Hee was a vengible fellow in linking matters together, whereupon he came to be surnamed Catena, that is, a chain.
Hence † Vengibly adv. Obs.
1580. G. Harvey, Three Lett., Wks. (Grosart), I. 49. Some as vengibly and frowardly bent, as for Example, Woormes, and Moules, and Cunnyes.
