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English
Etymology
ensanguine + -ed
Pronunciation
Verb
ensanguined
- simple past and past participle of ensanguine
Adjective
ensanguined (comparative more ensanguined, superlative most ensanguined)
- Bloodstained, bloody.
1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 194:The flames retired from the spot on which the blood was pouring. A volume of dark clouds rose slowly from the ensanguined earth, and ascended gradually till it reached the vault of the cavern.
1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 21, in The History of Pendennis. , volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1849–1850, →OCLC:Everybody who has the least knowledge of Heraldry and the Peerage must be aware that the noble family of which, as we know, Helen Pendennis was a member, bears for a crest, a nest full of little pelicans pecking at the ensanguined bosom of a big maternal bird, which plentifully supplies the little wretches with the nutriment on which, according to the heraldic legend, they are supposed to be brought up.
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