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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

sanguineus

. See

Abounding with blood; sanguine.

Of or pertaining to blood; bloody; constituting blood.

Sir T. Browne.

Blood-red; crimson.

Keats.

Adj.

[L. sanguineus.]

Abounding with blood; plethoric.

Constituting blood.

sanguineous ‎(comparative more sanguineous, superlative most sanguineous)

Accompanied by bloodshed; bloody
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
  [F]or swinging of incense-pans and Eighty-three Departmental Banners, we have waving of the one sanguinous Drapeau-Rouge [red flag].
Eager for bloody violence; bloodthirsty