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▪ I. raging, vbl. n.|ˈreɪdʒɪŋ|
[f. rage v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. in various senses.
c1320Sir Beues (MS. A) 1673 Ase þai sete in here raging, In at þe dore Beues gan spring. c1430Freemasonry 768 Lawȝe thou not..Ny make no ragynge with ey-body. 1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 21 Thys alayeth the heate and ragynge of the heade. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. xiii. 161 The tempests and raging of the sea. 1631Gouge God's Arrows i. §66. 110 Let not..the present raging of this plague too much daunt us. 1711Fingall MSS. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 193 He fell into a fitt of rageing a little before he dyed. 1810Southey Kehama xx. vi, The travellers hear The raging of the flood. 1892Zangwill Bow Mystery 137 His most ungentlemanly raging and raving.
▪ II. raging, ppl. a.|ˈreɪdʒɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. a. That rages, in various senses of the vb.
1483Cath. Angl. 298/2 Ragynge, rabians, rabidus. 15..Jerusalem, reioss in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 322 The regeand tirrant that in the rang, Herod, is exilit. 1535Coverdale Wisd. xiv. 1 Beginnynge to take his iourney thorow y⊇ raginge see. 1591Spenser Tears of Muses 374 Those bitter stounds Of raging love. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 116 Man, with raging Drink inflam'd, Is far more savage and untam'd. 1697Vanbrugh Relapse v. ii, Behold this raging lion at your feet. 1727–46Thomson Summer 432 'Tis raging noon; and vertical, the sun Darts..his forceful rays. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxx. (1878) 523 Beyond the reach of all the raging storms.
Comb.1562Pilkington Expos. Abdyas Pref. 8 Summer is raging hoate. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 1151 Loue..shall be raging mad, and sillie milde.
b. Of a disease or pain: Violent.
1695New Light Chirurg. put out 58 Brought the Gentleman into a raging Fever. 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. III. 234, I have such a raging head-ache. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop lxiii, Mr. Richard..was stricken with a raging fever.
c. Of a tooth: Aching furiously.
1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 414 Being troubled with a raging tooth, I could not sleepe. 1806H. Siddons Maid, Wife, & Widow iii. 246 Some opium I had concealed for a raging tooth.
d. Highly successful, tremendous; also as a mere intensifier. raging favourite, ‘hot’ favourite. colloq.
1886H. Baumann Londinismen 151/2 A raging favourite. 1889‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxxi. 398 He..was doing a raging business. 1894― in St. Nicholas Mar. 400/2 A raging lot of sand. 1977Hongkong Standard 12 Apr. 12/2 Raging favourite Orange Peel was pushed to the limit by Glynn Parry.
†2. raging (love) apples = ‘mad apples’ (q.v.). raging nightshade (see quot.). Obs.
1578Lyte Dodoens iii. lxxxv. 438 There be two kindes of Amorus or Raging loue apples. Ibid. 439 They be called..Raging or mad Apples. Ibid. xcii. 447 The other [kind] is called Solanum Manicum, that is to say, Mad, or Raging Nightshade. |
