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Webster 1913 Edition
Rage
Rage
(rāj)
, Noun.
1.
Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.
“In great rage of pain.” Bacon.
He appeased the
rage
of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay.
Convulsed with a
rage
of grief. Hawthorne.
2.
Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.
torment, and loud lament, and furious
rage
. Milton.
3.
A violent or raging wind.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
4.
The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion;
as, to be all the
. rage
Syn. – Anger; vehemence; excitement; passion; fury. See
Anger
. Rage
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Raged
(rājd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Raging
(rā′jĭng)
.] 1.
To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
“Whereat he inly raged.” Milton.
When one so great begins to
Even to falling.
rage
, he is huntedEven to falling.
Shakespeare
2.
To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously;
as, the
. raging
sea or windsWhy do the heathen
rage
? Ps. ii. 1.
The madding wheels
Of brazen chariots
Of brazen chariots
raged
; dire was the noise. Milton.
3.
To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect;
as, the plague
. raged
in Cairo4.
To toy or act wantonly; to sport.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Syn. – To storm; fret; chafe; fume.
Rage
,Verb.
T.
To enrage.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rage
RAGE
,Noun.
1.
Violent anger accompanied with furious words, gestures or agitation; anger excited to fury. Passion sometimes rises to rage.Torment and loud lament and furious rage.
2.
Vehemence or violent exacerbation of any thing painful; as the rage of pain; the rage of a fever; the rage of hunger or thirst.3.
Fury; extreme violence; as the rage of a tempest.4.
Enthusiasm; rapture.Who brought green poesy to her perfect age, and made that art which was a rage.
5.
Extreme eagerness or passion directed to some object; as the rage for money.You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.
RAGE
, v.i.1.
To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.At this he inly rag'd.
2.
To be violent and tumultuous.Why do the heathen rage? Ps. 2.
3.
To be violently driven or agitated; as the raging sea or winds.4.
To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with fatal effect; as, the plague rages in Cairo.5.
To be driven with impetuosity; to act or move furiously.The chariots shall rage in the streets. Nah. 2.
The madding wheels of brazen chariots rag'd.
6.
To toy wantonly; to sport. [Not in use.]