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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Rage

Rāge, n.

noun

n. [Fr. rage, Pr. ratge, rabia, Sp. rabia, It. rabbia, Lat. rabies, from rabere, to rave.]

Sense 1. Violent excitement; eager passion; absorbing vehemence of desire or emotion.

He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay.

Sense 2. Especially, violent anger accompanied with furious words, gestures, or agitation; anger excited to fury; vehement and overmastering wrath.

Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milton.

Sense 3. Vehemence or violent exacerbation of any thing painful or destructive; extreme violence; fury. “The party hurt who hath been in great rage of pain.” Bacon.

On me let Death wreak all his rage. Milton.

Sense 4. The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after or prosecuted with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.

Synonyms—Anger; vehemence; excitement; passion; fury. See ANGER.

Rāge, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. RAGED; p. pr. & vb. n. RAGING.] [O. Fr. rager, Pr. ratjar, raviar, Sp. rabiar. See supra.] 1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. At this he inly raged. Milton. 2. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds. Why do the heathen rage? Ps. ii. 1. The madding wheels of brazen chariots raged. Milton.

  1. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.
  2. To toy wantonly; to sport. [Obs.] Gower.

Syn.—To storm; fret; chafe; fume.