fierce vehement, precipitate, excessive,
violent:
“With all the fierce endeavour of your wit,”
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, v. 2.
841
;
“fierce extremes,”
KING JOHN, v. 7. 13
;
“fierce vanities,”
HENRY VIII., i. 1. 54
;
“fierce wretchedness,”
TIMON OF ATHENS, iv. 2. 30
;
“fierce events,”
HAMLET, i. 1. 121
;
“extreme, excessive=terrible, bloody,”
CALDECOTT)
(
“terrible,”
WARBURTON
“This fierce abridgment,”
CYMBELINE, v. 5. 382.
(
“vehement, rapid,”
JOHNSON)
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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