furial
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English furial, from Old French furial, from Latin furiālis (“furious, frenzied”).
Adjective edit
furial (comparative more furial, superlative most furial)
- (obsolete) Furious; raging; tormenting.
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French furial, from Latin furiālis (“furious, frenzied”).
Adjective edit
furial
- furious; raging; tormenting
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Squyers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- What is the cause, if it be for to telle, that ye been in this furial pyne of helle.
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References edit
- “furial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.