latrant

comparative more latrant · superlative most latrant

1. archaicSynonym of barking, particularly (figurative) snarling, bitterly or angrily complaining.

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

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

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   And that the Balant and Latrant Noiſes of that ſort of People may be for ever Silenced, […]

   1702, Cotton Mather, “Book VII (Ecclesarium Prælia: […])”, in Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620. unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698. […], London: […] Thomas Parkhurst, […], →OCLC, page 82, column 1

   Latrant, barking; as A Latrant Writer, an Author that does nothing but bark and snarl at others.

   [1706, Edward Phillips, edited by John Kersey, The New World of English Words, or, a General Dictionary, London: Printed for J[ohn] Philips, s.v, unnumbered page, column 1

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

   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

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

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

   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.

   1856, Lorenzo Altisonant [pseudonym; Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour], Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, Cincinnati: Applegate & Co., Letter No. II, page 13

   Synonyms: barking, particularly

plural latrants

1. obsoleterareOne who is barking, a dog, (figurative) a complainer.

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   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.)

   a. 1857, 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, published 1860, →OCLC, page 279