Meanings
- not comparableuncommonox; etc; ox; etcgovernmentPassant with head lowered, as if preparing to charge.
An old term for the bull etc., enraged, or furiosant.
2009 06, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 1071 more example
RANGANT, a term used, in old heraldry, for the bull, bugle, or buffalo, when borne furiosant, or in a rage, or madness.
1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica: Or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry - not comparableuncommonFurious.
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.
1920, Joseph Amasa Munk, Southwest Sketches, page 852 more examples
... 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.
1921, The Canadian Law Times, page 163On 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[…]
2019 April 30, Reginald Hill, Pictures of Perfection, Open Road Media, →ISBN
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