Sekirov Dictionary

sanguinary

UK /ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/US /ˈsæŋɡwɪnɛɹi/

adjective 3
noun 2
forms 3

adjective3

•
Involving bloodshed.
- We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences. — 1625
•
Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
- Passion […] makes us brutal and sanguinary. — 1730
•
Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.
- I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […] — 1749

noun2

A bloodthirsty person.
The plant common yarrow, or herba sanguinaria (Achillea millefolium).

forms

sanguinaries · more sanguinary · most sanguinary

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