† ˈvengible, a. and adv. Obs.
[var. of vengeable a.]
1. Vengeful, vindictive.
| 1548 Cooper Elyot's Dict., Dirus,..vengible, cruell, terrible. 1595 Locrine i. ii. 16 The desperate god Cuprit, with one of his vengible birdbolts, hath shot me vnto the heele. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts 461 These also are the Epethites of the Lionesse:..bold, stony-harted, vengible. 1609 Holland Amm. Marcell. 321 A vengible wayt-layer,..by bloudie grudges and displeasures doing much mischief. |
b. Grievous, severe.
| 1601 Holland Pliny I. 4 Impose they doe upon them hard and vengible charges to execute. |
2. Remarkable, extraordinary. Also as adv.
| 1594 Lyly Mother Bombie iii. ii, He spake nothing but sentences, but they were vengible long ones. 1602 Contention betw. Liberality & Prodigality iv. ii, Thornes, thistles, and nettles most horrible stingers, Rauens, grypes, and gryphons, oh vengible wringers. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 78 Hee was a vengible fellow in linking matters together, whereupon he came to be surnamed Catena, that is, a chain. |
Hence † ˈvengibly adv. Obs.
| 1580 G. Harvey Three Lett. Wks. (Grosart) I. 40 Some as vengibly and frowardly bent, as for Example, Woormes, and Moules, and Cunnyes. |