What is the difference between sanguinary and blood?
sanguinary | blood |
(label) Attended with bloodshed.
* 1625 , , "Unity in Religion"
* 1887 , :
(label) Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
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* 1877 , Samuel Green, The Life of Mahomet: Founder of the Religion of Islamism and of the Empire of the Saracens with Notices of the History of Islamism and of Arabia ,
(label) Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.
* 1913 , :
A bloodthirsty person.
The plant yarrow, or herba sanguinaria .
A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
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A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)
* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
A blood test or blood sample.
The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
* 1841 , Benjamin Parsons,
* 1901 , Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture , fourth edition, page 57:
* 1916 , John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest , page 44:
(label) The juice of anything, especially if red.
* Bible, (w) xiix. 11
(label) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) A lively, showy man; a rake.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
(member of a certain gang).
To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
To let blood (from); to bleed.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 121:
To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.
Sanguinary is a see also of blood.
As nouns the difference between sanguinary and blood
is that sanguinary is a bloodthirsty person while blood is a vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen in vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.As a adjective sanguinary
is attended with bloodshed.As a verb blood is
to cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.sanguinary
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Adjective
(en adjective)(Google preview):
- We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.
- " every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle."
- Passion makes us brutal and sanguinary .
p. 126:
- "The defence set up for Mahomet is equally availing for every sanguinary and revengeful tyrant; "
- Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster—and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies , that we who are old enough to remember a real modern war know to be the reality of belligerence.
Usage notes
* Not to be confused with (sanguine). (term) means “optimistic”, while (term) means “bloodthirsty, gory”.Synonyms
* (attended with bloodshed) bloody, gory * (eager to shed blood) bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, butcherous, slaughterous * bloody, goryNoun
(sanguinaries)blood
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(wikipedia blood)Alternative forms
* bloud (obsolete)Noun
F. E. Penny
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- a friend of our own blood
- to share the blood of Saxon royalty
Anti-Bacchus, page 95:
- It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
- Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
- Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood . It is white and looks very much like water; [...]
- He washedhis clothes in the blood of grapes.
- when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth
- Seest thou nothow giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
- It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood .