torvid

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin torvidus.

Adjective

torvid (comparative more torvid, superlative most torvid)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) Fierce, stern.
    • a. 1632, John Webster, Appius and Virginia; republished as William Hazlitt, editor, The Dramatic Works of John Webster, volume 3, 1857, page 219:
      […] but yesterday his breath / Aw’d Rome, and his least torved frown was death.
    • 1803, George Ardley, “Autumn Leaves; a descriptive Poem”, in The Universal Magazine, volume 1, number 5, published May 1804, page 514:
      That wary labourers, in passing by, / May not suspect his master's idle life, / Lest, urg’d by smiling truth or torvid jealousy, / They carry information to the little Nimrod of the borough town
    • 1896, Ovid, translated by John Benson Rose, The Metamorphoses of Ovid, page 110, lines 420–3:
      With torvid brow Saturnia gazed upon / Ixion, and the toiling Sisyphon, / And asked why he alone selected was / To bear such punishment […]

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