a. Also 5 furybound, 6 Sc. furebund, 8–9 furiboud. [ad. L. furibund-us (f. furĕre to rage); the earlier forms through F. furibond.] Furious, raging, mad.

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1490.  Caxton, Eneydos, xix. 70–1. Dydo lokyng at one side, torned hir eyen sodaynli, wythout to speke neuer a worde, as a persone furybounde and furyous.

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 610. All in ane mynd and will, Richt furebund.

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1601.  B. Jonson, Poetaster, V. iii. M 3 b. [In a list of affected words] Oblatrant—Obcæcate—Furibund—Fatuate.

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1669.  W. Simpson, Hydrol. Chym., 78. Enragements of that furibund animal the Matrix.

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1755.  T. H. Choker, Orl. Fur., XIV. cxix. Brutal, superb, audacious, furibond.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. IV. iv. (1872), 120. A waste energy as of Hercules not yet furibund.

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1855.  R. R. Madden, Life C’tess Blessington, II. 104. Strangely jocular in his furibond movements.

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1880.  Standard, 16 Jan., 4. The furibund utterances of Ultramontane journalism.

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