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VIOLENCE.
Now often merging into next, with an intensive sense. i
c 1384 Chaucer /A Fame 11. 775 For whan a pipe is blowen ,
sharpe, The aire ysiwyst with violence, c 1386— Cam. Veom,
Frol i T. 355 Thise metals been of so gret violence, Oure
walles mowe nat make hem resistence. 1:1400 Maundev.
(Rojcb.) xxxiii. 151 Sum ware drouned by violence of pe
wawes. i4i6LYDG./?tf(;w//. /*//i'>'. 12210, I.-sawha whel \
..By vyolence tourne aboute Contynuelly to-for my face.
ic6a Daus tr. SUidane'sCoiiwt. 414 b, Than chiefly was the
citie meruelouslye beaten with shot, the violence wherof
was so great, that [etc J. 1603 Shaks. Meas./orM.nu 1.
125 To be imprison'd in the vicwle-;se windes. And blowne
with rcsilesse violence round about. «6io Holland Crtw/«
list's Brit. 513 The river Aufon.-breaketh forthwith more |
violence upon the flats adtoyning. i6s9 Leak lyater-wks. \
I To make the Water enter therein with force, . . the vessel . . |
shall be made as high as may be, that it may give so much [
the more violence to the Water. 1703 MoxoN Mech. Exerc. 1
84 The shorter the Stuflfthat the Tennant is made on, the
less Violence the Tennant is subject to. 1793 Smeaton
Edysiom L. §61 note^ The strokes of the sea may at the
Ed>-stone be so great as to wash the poison out again from
the wood, that in a situation of less violence could, .slowly
insinuate itself. 1841 Lane Arab. Nts. L 104 He knocked
a fourth lime, and with violence. i86a Darwin Fertil.
Orchitis ii. 57 The pollinia cannot be jarred out of the
anther-cells by violence. 1895 Law Times Rep. LXXIIL
156/2 Two vessels.. drifted through the violence of a storm
on to the toe of a breakwater.
4. Great force, severity, or vehemence ; intensity
^some condition or influence.
1390G0WER Cimf. L 280 Wrathe.. Which hath htsewordes
ay so bote. That all a manncs pacience Is fyred of the violence.
1-1400 Maundev. (Roxb.) xv. 70 Oft tymes he fell
by violence of |jat sekeness. Ibid, xviii. 81 pe grete violence
of hete J>al dissoluez J>aire bodys. 1577 Googe Heresbach's
Hitsb. 28 Rye..sufferelh the violence of mystes and froste.^^
1604 E. G[rimstone1 D'Acosta''s Hist. Imiies 11. x. 103
Arabia, the which is buint with the Suniie, having no
showres to temper the violence thereof. 1658 Phillips s.v.
Itttercident^ An extraordinary critical day, ..being caused
by the violence of the disease. 1701 J. Purcell CAtf/:cA
(1714) 137 If an Inflammation arises, ..Bleeding is to be
order 'd, and repeated according to its Violence. 1794 Mks.
Radcliffe Myit UdolphoxXx, .She went off as peacefully as
a child, for all the violence of her disorder was passed. 1809
Med, Jml. XXI. 518 The inflammatory complaints, particularly
pneumonia, have recurred with considerable violence.
1874 j. L. Patterson Ess. Ke/ig: fi')
142 To ej^pect that the violence of party spirit Js never more
to return. i8ai Scott Kenihv. xxxii, I said nothing to
deserve such a horrid imputation as your violence infers,
1841 Elphinstone Hist. Ind. II. 321 It was concluded by
Akber's reproving the mullahs for their violence.
+ 6. Violation (?/"some condition. Obs."^
at cristis Innocent. 1539 More
Dyaloge iv, Wks. 274/1 Al our dedes good or badde ascend
or descende by the violent hande of God. 1588 Shaks. Tit.
A. III. ii. 22 'leach her not thus to lay Such violent hands
vppon her tender life. 1597 in Maitl. CI. MiiC. 1. 129 A. H.
..IS futid,,ane quha hes put violent handLs in his father.
1605 Shaks. Macb. v. viii. 70 His tiend-like Queene, Who
(as 'tis thought) by selfe and violent hatids, 1 ooke off her
life. r66a Bk. Com. Prayer, Burial DeatU The Office ensuing
is not to be used for any that . . have laid violent hands
upon themselves. 1749 Fielding Tom Jones xii. iii, He
laid violent hands on the collar of poor Partridge. 1753
Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Vices, Staying him \sc. a hor>eJ,
by degrees, with a steady, not a violent hand, c 1850
Bryant The Path 70 What guilt is_ theirs who, in their
greed or spite, Undo thy holy work with violent hands !
fc. With to (a person or thing), Obs,
1588 Shaks. Tit. A. v. ii. 109, I pray thee doe on them
some violent death, They haue bene violent to me and mine.
1645 IsiiLTON Tetrach. 67 Colluders your selves, as violent
to this law of God by your unmercifull binding, as the
Pharises by their unbounded loosning !
4. Of actions : a. Characterized by the doing of
harm or injury ; accompanied by the exercise of
violence.
13. . £. E. Allit. P. B. 1013 J>is was a vengaunce violent
J>at voyded j^ise places, pat foundered has so fayre a folk &
J>e folde Sonkken. c\-^ Antecrist in Todd Three Treat.
Wyclif \\t pe first peisecution of be chirche was violent,
whcnne cristen men weren coinpellid bi exilyngis, beiyngis,
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Out-run the pawser. Reason. Ibid. iv. iii. 169 Alas poore
Countrey,.. Where violent sorrow seem es A Moderne ecstasie.
1697 Dryden ALneid i. 948 A love so violent, so
strong, so sure, That neither age can change, nor art can
cure. 1711 Addison Sped. No. 120 p 10 This natural Love
in Brutes is much more violent and intense than in rational
Creatures. 1789 W. Buchan Dom, Med, (1790) 119 Love
is perhaps the strongest of all the passions ; at least, when
it becomes violent, it is less subject to. .control. 1797 Mrs.
Radcliffe Italian i, She was of violent passions, haughty,
vindictive, yet crafty and deceitful. z8o8 W. Wilson Hist,
Dissent. Ch. I. 272 Parker was a man of violent passions.
t e. Of taste or smell : Very strong. Obs.
1604 E. G[himstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xxvii.
284 It hath a strong savour, and in my opinion, too violent.
ijrSo Newgate Cat. V. 232 In the morning she perceived a
violent smell of sulphur.
f. Of colour : Intensely or extremely bright or
strong; vivid. Also y?^. of outline.
1768 Sterne Sent. Journ.., Le Dimanche, As the blue was
not violent, it suited with the coat and breeches very well.
1873 B. Harte Fiddletown 11 Her hair, which was a very
viofcnt red, was [etc.]. 1886 Ruskin Prseterita II. 204 The
accurate study of tree branches . . had more and more taught
me the difference between violent and graceful lines. 1888
Cent. Mag. Feb. 539/1 Rouge, if too violent, by a natural I
& de^s to make sacrifice to ydols. 1548 Cooper Elyot's
Dii.t., A'a///f7,.. violent taking of a persone. 1598 Shaks.
Merry W. in. ii. 44 To these violent proceedings all my
neighbors shall cry aime. 1606 — Tr.