a. and sb. [f. L. virāgin- (see prec.) + -IAN.] a. adj. = VIRAGINOUS a. b. sb. The language of a virago.
1642. Milton, Apol. Smect., Wks. 1851, III. 292. The remembrance of his old conversation among the Viraginian trollops.
1869. O. W. Holmes, Old Vol. Life, Cinders fr. Ashes (1891), 242. Her face … showed itself capable of something resembling what Milton calls the viraginian aspect.
1899. B. Capes, Lady of Darkness, ii. 12. She was rating him in voluble viraginian.
