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virid | vired |

As a noun virid

is a virid colour.

As an adjective virid

is green, verdant.

As a verb vired is

past tense of vire.

virid

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) viridis, from .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rare) A virid colour.
  • * 1991 , Doris Mary Stenton, English Society in the Early Middle Ages , Penguin Books, page 173:
    • In January 1208 the king ordered for a chaplain a robe of virid or burnet with a hood of coney skin ‘like our other chaplains’,
  • * 1994 , Paul U. Unschuld, Learn to Read Chinese , volume 1, Paradigm Publications, page 249:
    • (Among the colors) the five types of virid , red, yellow, white, and black are distinguished;
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    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Green, verdant.
  • * 1858 , James Macpherson, The Highlander , Canto IV, page 52,
    • The palace here, and there a virid mound, / Confine a flow'ry spot of grassy ground.
  • * 1929 , , Chivalry , 2006, page 135,
    • Virid fields would heave brownly under their ploughs; they would find that with practice it was almost as easy to chuckle as it was to cringe.
  • * 1977 , (Angela Carter), The Passion of New Eve
    • His protruberant eyeballs were veined with red like certain kinds of rare marble. He urged me to meditate upon the virid line of the whirling universe.
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    • Related terms
    * viridescence * viridescent * viridian * viridity

    See also

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    Etymology 2

    From

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, in plural) Any of a group of related viruses.

    • vired

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (vire)

    • vire

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow.
    • (Gower)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to transfer a surplus from one account to cover a deficit in another, to make a virement.
  • * 1996 , Derek Glover & Sue Law, Managing Professional Development in Education :
    • For example, in 1993, only 8 per cent of the survey schools said that they were likely to vire funds if problems arose during the year.
  • * 2005 , House of Commons (United Kingdom), Prison Education Report :
    • Prison education budgets were placed in the hands of prison governors who could vire money to other areas of the prisons.
  • * 2012 , David Maclaren, "Changing the Civil Service", Managing Public Services :
    • Because we cannot vire money between budgets, we buy more machines than we need, but cannot pay anyone to run them!
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