Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Apt to be angry; passionate; ireful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Irascible; passionate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
irascible ;passionate
Etymologies
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Old French iros, from ire. See ire.
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Examples
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A brother demanded of Agathon how he ought to dwell with his brethren, to whom he said: Like as the first day, and take on thee no trust but sufferance, for sufferance is not worse than trust, for sufferance is mother of all passions; and then keep thee from ire, for if the irous raised dead men it should not please God ne none other for his ire.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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'Ladies, who were more than ordinarily de (irous of their pleafurc.
The History of Magick: By Way of Apology, for All the Wise Men who Have Unjustly Been Reputed ... 1657
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