latrant

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1714, Thomas Tickell, “A Fragment of a Poem on Hunting”, in The poetical works of Thomas Parnell, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, published 1854, page 66:

Thy care be the first the various gifts to trace
The minds and genius of the latrant race.

1737, Matthew Green, The Spleen, and Other Poems, London: Printed for T Cadell, , published 1796, page 34:

Whoſe latrant ſtomachs oft moleſt
The deep-laid plans their dreams ſuggeſt;

1856, Lorenzo Altisonant , Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, Cincinnati: Applegate & Co., Letter No. II, page 13:

Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity.

1863, Roger Quinn, The Heather Lintie: , Dumfries: James Maxwell, page 21:

Thy latrant muse aye glooms sae sour;
The ither day her gipsy glower

1939, Michael Innes, Stop Press (Inspector Appleby), London: Ipso Books, published 2017, →ISBN, page 49:

Timmy’s voice and the rattle of the train’s subterraneous plunge were alike drowned in awful and bewildering clamour. A pandemonium of sound, latrant, mugient, reboatory, and beyond all words, reverberated between the walls of the tunnel.

• 1940 June 23, “Dogs Would Not Lie Doggo Here”, in The Sunday Sun and Guardian, number 1943, Sydney, page 7:

  Sounds, latrant, mugient and reboatory, echoed above the city’s noise as, yelping and barking, the heterogeneous pack raced down the street, while boys and girls, armed with rulers and schoolbags, manoeuvred it to a vacant allotment.

latrant (plural latrants)

1. (rare, obsolete) One who is barking, a dog, (figurative) a complainer.
   • 1860, William Hamilton, “Appendix”, in H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, editors, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic , volume IV, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 279:

     Thus—All triangles are all trilaterals. 2°, It may designate a class considered as undivided, though not positively thought as taken in its whole extent; and this may be articulately denoted by (:.). Thus—The triangle is the trilateral;—The dog is the latrant.— (Here note the use of the definite article in English, Greek, French, German,^α &c.)

• “latrant, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1902.
• “latrant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

lātrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of lātrō