From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sanguinary \San"gui*na*ry\, noun [L. herba sanguinaria an herb that stanches blood: cf. F. sanguinaire. See {Sanguinary}, a.] (Bot.) (a) The yarrow. (b) The Sanguinaria.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sanguinary \San"gui*na*ry\, adjective [L. sanguinarius, fr. sanguis blood: cf. F. sanguinaire.]
1. Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle.
We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences. --Bacon.
2. Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.
Passion . . . makes us brutal and sanguinary. --Broome.
Syn: Bloody; murderous; bloodthirsty; cruel.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war" [syn: {gory}, {sanguineous}, {slaughterous}, {butcherly}]
2: marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson [syn: {bloodthirsty}, {bloody-minded}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "sanguinary": Draconian, Tartarean, aggressive, animal, antagonistic, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, battling, beastly, bellicose, belligerent, bestial, blood-spattered, bloodstained, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, contentious, cruel, cruel-hearted, cutthroat, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, enemy, ensanguined, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fighting, full of fight, gory, grim, hawkish, heartless, hellish, homicidal, hostile, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, inimical, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, kill-crazy, malign, malignant, martial, merciless, militant, militaristic, military, murdering, murderous, noncivilized, offensive, pitiless, pugnacious, quarrelsome, red-handed, remorseless, ruthless, saber-rattling, sadistic, sanguine, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scrappy, self-destructive, sharkish, slaughterous, slavering, soldierlike, soldierly, subhuman, suicidal, tameless, trigger-happy, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, unfriendly, ungentle, unhuman, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, untamed, vicious, warlike, warmongering, warring, wild, wolfish
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