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Webster 1913 Edition
Fury
Fu′ry
,Noun.
[L.
fur
.] A thief.
[Obs.]
Have an eye to your plate, for there be
furies
. J. Fleteher.
1.
Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
Her wit began to be with a divine
fury
inspired. Sir P. Sidney.
2.
Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; – sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
“Fury of the wind.” Shak.
I do oppose my patience to his
fury
. Shakespeare
3.
pl.
(Greek Myth.)
The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra; the Erinyes or Eumenides. The
Furies
, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him. Emerson.
4.
One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
[R.]
Comes the blind
And slits the thin-spun life.
Fury
with the abhorred shears,And slits the thin-spun life.
Milton.
Syn. – Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See
Anger
. Webster 1828 Edition
Fury
FU'RY
,Noun.
1.
A violent rushing; impetuous motion; as the fury of the winds.2.
Rage; a storm of anger; madness; turbulence.I do oppose my patience to his fury.
3.
Enthusiasm; heat of the mind.4.
In mythology, a deity; a goddess of vengeance; hence, a stormy turbulent, violent woman.