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Webster 1913 Edition

Envious

En′vi-ous

,
Adj.
[OF.
envios
, F.
envieux
, fr. L.
invidiosus
, fr.
invidia
envy. See
Envy
, and cf.
Invidious
.]
1.
Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
[Obs.]
Each
envious
brier his weary legs doth scratch.
Shakespeare
2.
Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; – said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; – followed by of, at, and against;
as, an
envious
man, disposition, attack;
envious
tongues.
My soul is
envious
of mine eye.
Keble.
Neither be thou
envious
at the wicked.
Prov. xxiv. 19.
3.
Inspiring envy.
[Obs. or Poetic]
He to him leapt, and that same
envious
gage
Of victor’s glory from him snatched away.
Spenser.
4.
Excessively careful; cautious.
[Obs.]
–
En′vi-ous-ly
,
adv.
–
En′vi-ous-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition

Envious

EN'VIOUS

,
Adj.
Feeling or harboring envy; repining or feeling uneasiness, at a view of the excellence, prosperity or happiness of another; pained by the desire of possessing some superior good which another possesses, and usually disposed to deprive him of that good, to lessen it or to depreciate it in common estimation. Sometimes followed by against, but generally and properly by at, before the person envied.
Neither be thou envious at the wicked. Prov.14.
Be not envious of the blessings or prosperity of others.
1.
Tinctured with envy; as an envious disposition.
2.
Excited or directed by envy; as an envious attack.

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