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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Sanguinary

Săn'gui-na-ry, a.

adjective

(săng/gwī-na-rȳ), a. [Lat. sanguinarius, from sanguis, blood; Fr. sanguinaire, Sp. & It. sanguinario.]

  1. Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle.
  2. Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.

Passion ... makes us brutal and sanguinary. Broome. Syn.—Bloody; murderous; bloodthirsty; savage; cruel.

Săn'gui-na-ry, n.

noun

n. [Fr. sanguinaire, Sp. & It. sanguinaria; Lat. herba sanguinaria, an herb that stanches blood. See supra.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Sanguinaria; bloodwort; bloodroot.