▪ I. † enˈrage, n. Obs.
[f. next.]
Rage, fury.
| 1502 Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) v. iii. 377 Is multyplyed the enrage of enuy of those the whiche ben dampned. |
▪ II. enrage, v.
(ɛnˈreɪdʒ)
Also 6–8 in-.
[ad. OF. enrage-r, f. en- (see en- prefix1) + 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 F. 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 Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 317 His love, perceiving how he is enraged, Grew kinder. a 1619 M. Fotherby Atheom. i. xiv. §3 (1622) 151 Yea one that is enraged, 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 of Monmouth tr. Senault's Man become Guilty 65 Poets droop, when not inraged. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 388 To battel Tygers move; Enrag'd with Hunger, more enrag'd with Love. 1719 De Foe Crusoe (1840) II. xiv. 293 The poor beast, enraged with the wounds, was no more to be governed. |
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 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. i. 211 Like an offensive wife, That hath enrag'd him on, to offer strokes. 1605 ― Macb. iii. iv. 118 Question enrages him. 1624 Bedell Lett. iv. 77 The Protestants making the Pope Antichrist..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 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 Epictetus' Mor. xxi, 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 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. i. 144 My Limbes (Weak'ned with greefe) being now inrag'd with greefe, Are thrice themselues. 1626 G. Sandys Ovid's Met. vi. 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. |