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Webster 1913 Edition
Flagrant
Fla′grant
,Adj.
1.
Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.
The beadle’s lash still
flagrant
on their back. Prior.
A young man yet
flagrant
from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey.
Flagrant
desires and affections. Hooker.
2.
Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.
A war the most powerful of the native tribes was
flagrant
. Palfrey.
Syn. – Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See
Atrocious
. Webster 1828 Edition
Flagrant
FLA'GRANT
,Adj.
1.
Burning; ardent; eager; as flagrant desires.2.
Glowing; red; flushed.See Sapho, at her toilet's greasy task,
Then issuing flagrant to an evening mask.
3.
Red; inflamed.The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back.
[The foregoing senses are unusual.]
4.
Flaming in notice; glaring; notorious; enormous; as a flagrant crime.