violence (violens)

[ To be imprisoned in the viewle winds, And blown with restle violence round about. Shak., M. for M., iii. 1. 125. The violence of the lake is so great that it will carry away both man and beast that commeth within it. Coryat, Crudities, I. 89. Disturb'd and torn With violence of this conflict. Milton , P. L., iv. 995. 2. Highly excited feeling or action; impetuosity; vehemence; eagerne . Mark me with what violence she first loved the Moor, but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies. Shak., Othello, ii. 1. 224. 3. Injury done to anything which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; violation. See the phrases below. -4. Unjust or unwarranted exertion of power; unjust force; force employed against rights, laws, liberty, or the like;; outrage; injury; hurt; attack; a ault. To prevent the tyrant's violence . Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iv. 4. 29. Fie, Master Morose, that you will use this violence to a B. Jonson , Epicœne, iii. 2. man of the church! 5. Ravishment; rape.-6. In law: (a) Any wrongful act of one person, rson, whereby either he or his instrument of wrong-doing ong-doing is brought into contact with the limbs or body of another person. Robinson. (b) The overcoming or preventing of resistance by exciting fear through display of force. (c) The unlawful use of physical force. To do violence ont, to attack; murder. But, as it seems, did violence on herself. Shak., R. and J., v. 3. 264. To do violence to or unto, to outrage; force; injure. He said unto them, Do violence to no man. Luke iii. 14. They have done violence unto her tomb, Not granting rest unto her in the grave. Beau . and Fl . , Knight of Malta, v. 2. =Syn. 1 and 2. Pa ion, fury, fiercene , wildne , rage, boisterousne . violencet (vì'ō-lens), v. t. [ Mrs. Fitz . It may beget some favour like excuse, Though none like reason. Wit . No, my tuneful mistre ? Then surely love hath none, nor beauty any; Nor nature, violenced in both of these. B. Jonson, Devil is an A , ii. 2. 2. To bring by violence; compel. Like our late misnam'd high court of justice, to which the loyal and the noble, the honest and the brave, were vio lenc'd by ambition and malice. Feltham , Resolves, ii. 64. violency (vi'ō-len-si), n. [As violence (see-cy).] Same as violence. Jer. Taylor, Rule of Conscience, III. ii. 3. violent (vi'ō-lent), a. and n. [ vyolent , violent , F. violent = Sp. Pg. It. violento , violent us , vehement, forcible, vis , strength strength, power, force: see vim .] evim .] I. a. 1. Char- acterized by strong and sudden physical force; impetuous; furious. Our fortunes lie a bleeding by your rash And violent onset. Lust's Dominion, iv. 2. Violent fires soon burn out themselves. Shak., Rich. II., ii. 1. 34. 2. Produced, effected, or continued by force; accompanied by extraneous or unnatural force; unnatural. T. Burnet. No violent state can be perpetual. Truly I don't Care to discourage a young Man - he has a violent Death in his Face; but I hope no Danger of Hanging. Congreve, Love for Love, ii. 7. Then laid they violent hands upon him; next Himself imprisoned, and his goods as seized. Marlowe , Edw. II., i. 2. 6761 We would give much to use violent thefts. Shak ., T. and C., v. 3. 21. When with a violent hand you made me yours, I curs'd the doer. Fletcher (and another ), Sea Voyage, ii. 1. 4. Vehement mentally, or springing from such vehemence; fierce; pa ionate; furious. Let down your anger! Is not this our sovereign? The head of mercy and of law? who dares, then, But rebels scorning law, appear thus violent ? Fletcher, Loyal Subject, iv. 7. His Love, however violent it might appear, was still founded in Reason. Add is on, Spectator, No. 345. Indeed, my Dear, you'll tear another Fan, if you don't Congreve, Way of the World, iii. 11. mitigate those violent Airs. 5. In general, intense in any respect; extreme: as, a violent contrast; especially, of pain, acute. Discreet maistris seyn that the feuere agu comounly is causid of a uyolent reed coler adust, and of blood adust, and of blak coler adust. Book of Quinte E ence (ed. Furnivall), p. 22. It was the violent est Fit of Contagion that ever was for the Time in this Island. Howell , Letters, I. iv. 24. The king's whole army, encamped along the sides of this river, were taken with violent sickne after eating the fish caught in it. Bruce , Source of the Nile, II. 235. Rouge, if too violent , by a natural law of color causes the planes of the cheeks to recede from the planes of the other and whiter portions of the face, thus producing a look of age and of gauntne . The Century, XXXV. 539. 6. Compelled; compulsory; not voluntary. All violent marriages engender hatred betwixt the married. Guevara , Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 297. Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. Milton , P. L., iv. 97. Violent motiont. See motion. - Violent power. See power1.-Violent profits, in Scots law, the penalty due on a tenant's forcibly or unwarrantably retaining po e ion after he ought to have removed. = Syn. 1. Turbulent, boisterous.-5. Poignant, exquisite. II.t n. One acting with violence. Such violents shall not take heaven, but hell, by force. Decay of Christian Piety , p. 53. ( Latham .) violentt (vi'ō-lent), v. [ I find not the least appearance that his former adversaries violented any thing against him under that queen. Fuller , Worthies, III. 510. II. in trans . Τo act or work with violence; be violent. This grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste, And violent eth in a sense as strong As that which causeth. Shak ., T. and C., iv. 4. 4. violently (vi'ō-lent-li), adv. In a violent manner; by violence; by force; forcibly; vehemently; outrageously. They must not deny that there is to be found in nature another agent able to analyse compound bodies le vio lently, and both more genuinely and more universally, than the fire. Boyle , Works, I. 486. The king, at the head of the cavalry, fell so suddenly and so violently upon them that he broke through the van-guard commanded by Melca Christos, and put them to flight before his foot could come up. Bruce , Source of the Nile, II. 393. During the siege of Valenciennes by the allied armies in June, 1793, the weather, which had been remarkably hot and dry, became violently rainy after the cannonading Sci . Amer., N. S., LXIII. 385. commenced.