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Sanguinary

//ˈsæŋɡwɪnɛɹi// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Involving bloodshed.

    "We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences."

  2. 2
    Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.

    "Passion […] makes us brutal and sanguinary."

  3. 3
    Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.

    "I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed wordnet
  2. 2
    accompanied by bloodshed wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A bloodthirsty person.
  2. 2
    The plant common yarrow, or herba sanguinaria (Achillea millefolium).

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English sanguinarie, from Latin sanguinārius.

Etymology 2

From Middle English sanguinarie, from Latin sanguinārius.

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