sanguinolent, a.
(sæŋˈgwɪnəʊlənt)
[ad. L. sanguinolentus, f. sanguin-, sanguis blood: see -olent.]
1. Of or pertaining to blood; tinged or stained with or containing blood. Now chiefly Path. † Also of a patient: Suffering from hæmorrhage.
| 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 47 b/2 The Dysenteria or bloodye flixe is a sangvinolent excrement of the Bellye. 1599 ― tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 67/1 Agaynst bleedinge of the Nose... Take the Mosse of a dead mans Cranium,..and applye that to the sanguinolent Patient his nose, and it helpeth. 1613 Marston Insatiate Countess v. Wks. 1856 III. 181 Yet the sanguinolent staine would extant be! 1697 J. Headrich Arcana Philos. 39 Preparation in Sanguinolent Vlcers. 1850 Blackie æschylus I. 194 Find a home In some grim lion's den sanguinolent. 1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 598 Pericarditis with abundance of sanguinolent effusion. |
† 2. Having the colour of blood, blood-red. Obs.
| c 1450 Mirour Saluacioun 4109 Fore rede sangvinolent was alle cristis clothing. 1513 Douglas æneis x. v. 141 The comete stern sanguynolent, Wyth hys red cullour trist and violent. |
3. Bloodthirsty; cruel; merciless. rare.
| 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. III. 1115/2 Others of good behaviour, have beene most cruellie cast awaie by these former sanguinolent thirstie lawes. 1716 M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. 30 He makes Sanguinolent outcrys against those of the Clergy who [etc.]. 1853 Blackw. Mag. LXXIV. 569 From the days of sanguinolent Sulla until now. |