ragingly (comparative more ragingly, superlative most ragingly)
In a raging manner.
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Ra"ging,
Definition: a. & n. from Rage, v. i.
– Ra"*ging*ly, adv.
Rage, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. rabies, fr. rabere to rave; cf. Skr. rabh to seize, rabhas violence. Cf. Rabid, Rabies, Rave.]
1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. Hawthorne.
2. Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury. torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milton.
3. A violent or raging wind. [Obs.] Chaucer.
4. The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.
Syn.
– Anger; vehemence; excitement; passion; fury. See Anger.
Rage, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raged; p. pr. & vb. n. Raging.] Etym: [OF. ragier. See Rage, n.]
1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. "Whereat he inly raged." Milton. When one so great begins to rage, he a hunted Even to falling. Shak.
2. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds. Why do the heathen rage Ps. ii. 1. The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise. Milton.
3. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.
4. To toy or act wantonly; to sport. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Syn.
– To storm; fret; chafe; fume.
Rage, v. t.
Definition: To enrage. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 January 2025
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