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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SAN'GUINARY, a. [L. sanguinarius, from sanguis, blood.]
1. Bloody; attended with much bloodshed; murderous; as a sanguinary war, contest or battle.
2. Blood thirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.
Passion - makes us brutal and sanguinary.
SAN'GUINARY, n. A plant.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war" [syn: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, butcherly]
2: marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson [syn: bloodthirsty, bloody- minded, sanguinary]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin sanguinarius, from sanguin-, sanguis blood Date: circa 1623 1. bloodthirsty, murderous <sanguinary hatred> 2. attended by bloodshed ; bloody <this bitter and sanguinary war — T. H. D. Mahoney> 3. consisting of blood <a sanguinary stream> Synonyms: see bloody • sanguinarily adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 accompanied by or delighting in bloodshed. 2 bloody; bloodthirsty. 3 (of laws) inflicting death freely. Derivatives: sanguinarily adv. sanguinariness n. Etymology: L sanguinarius f. sanguis -inis blood

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sanguinary San"gui*na*ry, a. [L. sanguinarius, fr. sanguis blood: cf. F. sanguinaire.] 1. Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle. We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences. --Bacon. 2. Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood. Passion . . . makes us brutal and sanguinary. --Broome. Syn: Bloody; murderous; bloodthirsty; cruel.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sanguinary San"gui*na*ry, n. [L. herba sanguinaria an herb that stanches blood: cf. F. sanguinaire. See Sanguinary, a.] (Bot.) (a) The yarrow. (b) The Sanguinaria.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Bloody, murderous. 2. Cruel, blood-thirsty, savage, inhuman, barbarous, ruthless, pitiless, fell, truculent. II. n. Blood-root, bloodwort, red-root (Sanguinaria Canadensis).

Moby Thesaurus

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