slaughterous, a.
(ˈslɔːtərəs)
[f. slaughter n. + -ous.]
Murderous, destructive.
| 1582 Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 20 What fortun vnhappye Mee fenst from falling wyth thy fierce slaughterus handstroke. 1605 Shakes. Macb. v. v. 14 Direnesse familiar to my slaughterous thoughts Cannot once start me. 1634 Canne Necess. Separation 20 Many will rather submit to those slaughterous and inhuman courses than seek to redeem their precious liberty. 1798 Progress of Man 96 in Anti Jacobin (1852) 74 The slaught'rous arms that wrought thy woe. 1817 J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 97 The place where the slaughterous but immortal struggle was waged. 1839 James Louis XIV, II. 367 After various slaughterous conflicts,..the Spanish troops were obliged to withdraw. 1853 Mrs. Gaskell Cranford x, Some accident might occur from such slaughterous and indiscriminate directions. |
Hence ˈslaughterously adv., ‘destructively; murderously’ (1847 Webster).