a. [f. as prec. + is -OUS.] Of the nature of, having the characteristics of, a virago.
1666. Third Adv. Painter, 24. She dry’d no tears, for she was so Viraginous, But only snufling her trunk Cartilaginous.
1825. Brockett, N. C. Gloss., s.v. Stang, He is carried through the whole hamlet, with a view of exposing or shaming the viraginous lady.
1886. Sat. Rev., 10 July, 58. Besides the viraginous loves or Fanny Douglas there is much other love-making in the novel. Ibid. (1890), 16 Aug., 214. Virile was exactly what Mme. de Staël was not, though she may have been viraginous.
Hence Viraginously adv.
1644. R. Culmer, Cathedral News fr. Canterb., 21. In comes a Prebend’s wife, and pleaded for the Images there, and jeered the Commissioners viraginously.
