Enraged

ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED¹.]

  † 1.  In various senses. Of matter: Enfevered, vitiated. Of creatures: Made furious, maddened. Of men: Savage. Obs.

1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. lvii. (1495), 173. Bones often tymes ben greuyd of fretynge and gnawynge of wode and enragyd matere.

1533.  Bellenden, Livy, V. (1822), 449. Bot the place and hichtis quhare thay dwell has maid thame sa enragit and wilde.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, II. 226. All the horses … become inraged.

1652.  Howell, Masaniello, 2nd Part (1663), 29. Like so many enraged Lions.

  † 2.  Of desires, passions, etc.: Inflamed, ardent, furious. Obs. or arch.

1580.  Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 166. With the sword of reuerent dutie gaine-stand the force of so many enraged desires.

1599.  Shaks., Much Ado, II. iii. 103. But … she loves him with an inraged affection, it is past the infinite of thought.

1651.  Life Father Sarpi (1676), p. l. Such an enraged hatred.

  3.  Of persons: Thrown into a rage, infuriate.

1732.  Berkeley, Alciphr., III. § 16. Would you help an enraged man to his sword?

1757.  Burke, Abridgm. Eng. Hist., Wks. 1826, X. 466. He was unwilling to keep pace with the violence of that enraged bishop.

1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 526. The prosecutors had with difficulty escaped from the hands of an enraged multitude.

  Hence Enragedly adv., in an enraged manner, furiously. Enragedness, the state or condition of being enraged.

a. 1572.  Knox, Hist. Ref., Wks. (1846), I. 178. Then more enraigedlye, thei cry, ‘We shall never departe till that we see him.’

1639.  Charles I., Declar. Tumults Scot., 37. The barbarous multitude run most inragedly upon them.

1611.  Cotgr., Furie, enragednesse, frenzie, madnesse.