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Full of wrath; very angry; greatly incensed; ireful; passionate; as, a wrathful man.

In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully. [Colloq.]

Free from anger or wrath. Waller.

Very angry. [Colloq.]

Of or pertaining to Zarathustra, or Zoroaster; Zoroastrian. Tylor.

See Zoroastrianism.

Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; - - opposed to Ant: speculative or Ant: theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative statesman.

One who deals with or considers actually existing facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; -- opposed to idealist. J. Grote.

gard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at. [Archaic] Examples rather to be admired than imitated. Fuller.

To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.] As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her. Fuller.

; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.

rty years, and never age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

avate the horrors of the scene. Prescott. The defense made by the prisioner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. Addison.

ton. "Amidst acclamations." "Amidst the splendor and festivity of a court." Macaulay. But rather famish them amid their plenty. Shak.

Rather quicker than andante; between that allegretto.

To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke. Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people. Clarendon.

stion, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Prov. xv. 1. I called him, but he gave me no answer. Cant. v. 6.

To anticipate; to make before the true time. And antedate the bliss above. Pope. Who rather rose the day to antedate. Wordsworth.

One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody.

perception or estimation so obtained; an immediate apprehension or insight, appreciative rather than analytic.