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Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging. A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant. Palfrey.

The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc. He [the lion] from forage will incline to play. Shak. One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. Milton. Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. Marshall.

A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. [Obs.] "Raging frantic froes." Draylon.

Furious; raging; tormenting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.

An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.

To heave up; to raise aloft. Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he heft. Spenser.

Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech. Holland.

A modern term applied to animals (as a boar) when borne as raging, or with furious aspect.

Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative. Competency is the most incentive to industry. Dr. H. More.

Incitingly; encouragingly.

Affected with madness; raging; furious. -- Mad"ding*ly, adv. [Archaic] Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Gray. The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged. Milton.

Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.

r worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; -- in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.

r physiology, idealistic literature, and service in the interest of peace. The prizes, averaging $40,000 each, were first awarded in 1901.

d; hence, wanting in the mental vigor or other qualities belonging to youth; -- used disparagingly as a term of reproach.

urch of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies; pertaining to popery; popish; -- used disparagingly. "The old papistic worship." T. Warton. -- Pa*pis"tic*al*ly, adv.

Hortatory; encouraging; persuasive. [R.] F. Potter.

Implying or imputing evil; depreciatory; disparaging; unfavorable.

h refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks; as, indulgence in personalities. Sharp personalities were exchanged. Macaulay.