Vi"o*lent (?), a. [F., from L.
violentus, from vis strength, force; probably akin to Gr. &?;
a muscle, strength.] 1. Moving or acting with physical
strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or
passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a
violent blow; the violent attack of a disease.
Float upon a wild and violent sea.
Shak.A violent cross wind from either coast.
Milton.2. Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or
improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on
the right of free speech.
To bring forth more violent deeds.
Milton.Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's
life.
Shak.3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous;
unnatural; abnormal.
These violent delights have violent
ends.
Shak.No violent state can be perpetual.
T.
Burnet.Ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
Milton.Violent presumption(Law),
presumption of a
fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such
facts. --
Violent profits(Scots Law),
rents or profits of an estate obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding
over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing.Syn. -- Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent;
impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme.
Vi"o*lent, n. An assailant.
[Obs.] Dr. H. More.
Vi"o*lent, v. t. [Cf. F. violenter.]
To urge with violence. [Obs.] Fuller.
Vi"o*lent, v. i. To be violent; to act
violently. [Obs.]
The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,
And violenteth in a sense as strong
As that which causeth it.
Shak.Vi"o*lent (?), a. [F., from L.
violentus, from vis strength, force; probably akin to Gr. &?;
a muscle, strength.] 1. Moving or acting with physical
strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or
passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a
violent blow; the violent attack of a disease.
Float upon a wild and violent sea.
Shak.A violent cross wind from either coast.
Milton.2. Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or
improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on
the right of free speech.
To bring forth more violent deeds.
Milton.Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's
life.
Shak.3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous;
unnatural; abnormal.
These violent delights have violent
ends.
Shak.No violent state can be perpetual.
T.
Burnet.Ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
Milton.Violent presumption(Law),
presumption of a
fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such
facts. --
Violent profits(Scots Law),
rents or profits of an estate obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding
over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing.Syn. -- Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent;
impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme.
Vi"o*lent, n. An assailant.
[Obs.] Dr. H. More.
Vi"o*lent, v. t. [Cf. F. violenter.]
To urge with violence. [Obs.] Fuller.
Vi"o*lent, v. i. To be violent; to act
violently. [Obs.]
The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,
And violenteth in a sense as strong
As that which causeth it.
Shak.