furiosant

English edit

furiosant (not comparable)

(heraldry, uncommon, of a bull, ox, etc) Passant with head lowered, as if preparing to charge.
- 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica: Or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:
  RANGANT, a term used, in old heraldry, for the bull, bugle, or buffalo, when borne furiosant, or in a rage, or madness.
- 2009 06, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 107:
  An old term for the bull etc., enraged, or furiosant.
(uncommon) Furious.
- 1920, Joseph Amasa Munk, Southwest Sketches, page 85:
  These men step out with much vim and vigor in a regular furiosant march of swift, long, strong strides that stop at nothing, and the luckless pedestrian who happens to get in their way is apt to be knocked down and run over.
- 1921, The Canadian Law Times, page 163:
  ... the inane whim of the furiosant fanatics of Canadian Independence! But I must come back to the blaring headlines with which the statement by the Lord Chancellor of England was adorned - or obscured by the Daily Press of Canada.
- 2019 April 30, Reginald Hill, Pictures of Perfection, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
  On the whole, Pascoe found his sympathies with Selwyn here, for the sight of Dalziel furioso, or perhaps more precisely furiosant, for there was certainly more of the mad bull than the enraged hero in his looks, was enough to set a […]