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To avenge; to punish; to revenge. [Obs.] See Avenge, and Revenge. Chaucer. "To venge me, as I may." Shak.

Revengeful; deserving revenge. [Obs.] Spenser. -- Venge"a*bly, adv. [Obs.]

injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge. To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. Deut. xxxii. 35. To execute fierce vengeance on his foes. Milton.

Extremely; excessively. [Obs.] "He loves that vengeancely." Beau. & Fl.

Vindictive; retributive; revengeful. "Vengeful ire." Milton. -- Venge"ful*ly, adv.

Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance. [Obs.] Spenser.

An avenger. [Obs.] Spenser.

To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Milton. He had avenged hims…

Vengeance. [Obs.]

Vengeful. [Obs.] Spenser.

The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. [R.] Milton.

One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood.

A female avenger. [Obs.] Spenser.

for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before thewrong done or the wrongdoer. To revenge the death of our…

Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner.

Vengeance; revenge. [Obs.]

Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak.

Unrevenged. [Obs.] Marston.

Revenge. [Obs.] He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.

One who revenges. Shak.