ensanguine

American  

[en-sang-gwin] / ɛnˈsæŋ gwɪn /

verb (used with object)

ensanguined, ensanguining

1. to stain or cover with or as with blood.

   a flag ensanguined with the blood of battle.

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ensanguine British  

/ ɪnˈsæŋɡwɪn /

verb

1. literary (tr) to cover or stain with or as with blood

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Etymology

Origin of ensanguine

First recorded in 1660–70; en- ¹ + sanguine

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Example Sentences

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ensanguine ensanguined

His eyelids were inflamed, and but served to ensanguine the bitter and cold-blazing intensity of the pupils. 

From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London

But in the attempt to incarnate and ensanguine it I failed wretchedly.

From Seven Men by Sir Max Beerbohm

I drank the mixture and then looked about me, and saw that every ensanguined trace of the tragedy which had occurred a few hours before had been removed.

From The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton 1902 by Louis Becke

"He answered not but with a sudden hand Made bare his branded and ensanguined brow, Which was like Cain's or Christ's--oh! that it should be so!"

From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall

"I, master," and Tematau placed an ensanguined hand on mine.

From The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton 1902 by Louis Becke

Six days afterwards, the star of Napoleon Bonaparte had set for ever in the lurid and ensanguined battle clouds of Waterloo.

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Graham Everitt

King of East Anglia's realm, the primal Truths Are vanished from our Faith: the ensanguined rite, The insane carouse survive!'

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere

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