Also 6–8 in-. [ad. OF. enrage-r, f. en- (see EN- pref.1) + rage rabies, RAGE.
The Fr. word is used only intr.; the trans. use in Eng. appears to have arisen (c. 1600) from the pa. pple. enraged (= Fr. enragé) taken as passive.]
† 1. intr. To be distracted, ‘driven wild’ (by hunger, thirst). Const. for [after Fr. enrager de faim, soif]. Obs.
1502. Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W., 1506), V. ii. 364. Nor never shall cease to … enrage for thyrste.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. cxlvi. 174. So sore strayned that we haue nat to lyue withall, but … muste all dye, or els enrage for famyn.
1557. Paynel, Barclay’s Jugurth, 95. Serpentes whiche were so muche more violent and fiers for lacke of meat … as al other wilde beastes be wont to inrage for honger.
† 2. To get into a rage, become very angry. Obs.
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Huon, civ. 345. He enraged & was nere out of his wyt.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., X. 466. Whereat the Alcalde, inraging, set my teeth asunder with a payre of iron cadges.
1782. Miss Burney, Cecilia, IX. x. V. 192. My father … will only enrage at the temerity of offering to confute him.
† 3. Of famine, persecution, etc.: To rage. Obs.
1560. Bible (Genev.), Ex., Arg. The more that the tyranny of the wicked enraged against his Church.
1606. Warner, Alb. Eng., XIV. xcii. (1612), 372. Such famine had inrag’d within the walles so sore.
† 4. Pa. pple. Maddened (with anger, love, pain, etc.); inspired with poetic frenzy. Also, affected with rabies.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XIII. v. 20. And sine, half deill enragit … in ruschis he Amyd the rowt.
1592. Shaks., Ven. & Ad., 317. His love, perceiving how he is enraged, Grew kinder.
a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., I. xiv. § 3 (1622), 151. Yea one that is inraged, not with frenzie, but with furie.
1635. Swan, Spec. M., vi. § 4 (1643), 252. Such as are enraged by the biting of a mad dog.
1650. Earl Monmouth, trans. Senault’s Man become Guilty, 65. Poets droop, when not inraged.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., III. 387/107. To battel Tygers move; Enrag’d with Hunger, more enrag’d with Love.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe (ed. 3), II. 273. The poor Beast enraged with the Wound, was no more to be governed by his Rider.
5. trans. To throw into a rage; to make furious, exasperate; also with on, and absol.
1589. Warner, Alb. Eng., VI. xxx. (1612), 149. Successlesse therefore, and inrag’d.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. i. 17. Therewith enrag’d she loudly gan to bray.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., IV. i. 211. Like an offensive wife, That hath enrag’d him on, to offer strokes. Ibid. (1605), Macb., III. iv. 118. Question enrages him.
1624. Bedell, Lett., iv. 77. The Protestants making the Pope Antichrist, I know is a point that inrageth much at Rome.
1667. Milton, P. L., II. 698. I reing King, and to enrage thee more, Thy King and Lord.
1709. Stanhope, Paraphr., IV. 531. Shall we be inraged and impatient for Affronts and Disgrace.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), IV. 103. He [the dog] stands enraged and barking.
1864. Blackfriars, II. 224. Little the worse for … his fall, but madly enraged at the galling mischance.
1872. Darwin, Emotions, x. 240. So a man may intensely hate another, but until his bodily frame is affected, he cannot be said to be enraged.
† 6. transf. a. To add fury or violence to; to make violent or virulent; to exacerbate. b. To cause heat or fever in (the blood, a wound). Obs.
a. c. 1500. Melusine, 164. The see was enraged thrugh the stormes and horryble tempeste.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, IV. i. § 1. 457. Great rivers are at once swollen, fast running inraged.
1639. Fuller, Holy War, V. xv. (1840), 269. Unwholesome diet enraging the climate against us.
1656. Ridgley, Pract. Physick, 49. A double poyson, one putrifying which is enraged by suppurating remedies.
1692. E. Walker, trans. Epictetus’ Mor., xxi. 28. To tell him he’s mistaken will inrage His grief.
1713. Young, Last Day, II. 248. Angels drive on the wind’s impetuous course, T’enrage the flame.
1759. B. Martin, Nat. Hist. Eng., Somerset, I. 84. Enrages the Gout or strikes it in.
b. 1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., I. i. 144. My Limbes (Weak’ned with greefe) being now inrag’d with greefe, Are thrice themselues.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., VI. (1626), 119. In-bred lust Inrag’d his blood.
1635. R. Bolton, Comf. Affl. Consc., v. 215. They will … rather enrage the wound, then weaken the rage.
1693. R. Lyde, Recov. Friend’s Adventure, in Arb., Garner, VII. 449. My left thumb … was very much swelled and enraged.
