Definition of Ensanguine
1. v. t. To stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color; as, an ensanguined hue.
Definition of Ensanguine
1. [v -GUINED, -GUINING, -GUINES]
Medical Definition of Ensanguine
1. To stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red colour; as, an ensanguined hue. "The ensanguined field." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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Literary usage of Ensanguine
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1. A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, New York: From the Earliest by Franklin Benjamin Hough (1853)
"You reply to me, concerning your young men, but you pray me uot to ensanguine
the land which'you inhabit. BY A BELT. It appears, my children, that you know ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1868)
"... more especially by my desire to avoid subjecting the patient, in his then
weakened and ensanguine state, to any shock which might possibly be avoided. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1840)
"... natured so fiercer tu blaze By raging on—knowing nor practising The more 'tis
fed, 'scaping the thoughts of the past But to ensanguine all,—bathing its ..."
4. The Nineteenth Century (1886)
"but calamity; not the suppression of treason, but the extension and increase of
plots to multiply and ensanguine its horrors.' It is scarcely necessary to ..."
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