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ravenous(dictionary)

Brownism (iou) and ravenous (iou)


Brownism (iou)



Brownism noun. E17.
[from Brown (see below) + -ISM.]
Hist. The system of church government advocated by the Puritan Robert Brown (c 1550-c 1633), and adopted by the Independents.
Brownist noun an adherent or student of the ecclesiastical principles of Robert Brown L16.
Brow'nistical adjective M17.

ravenous (iou)



ravenous adjective. LME.
[Old French ravinos, -eus, formed as RAVEN verb: see -OUS.]
Given to plundering; very rapacious. LME.
Of appetite, hunger, an animal, etc.: voracious, gluttonous. In pred. use also foll. by of. LME.
Exceedingly hungry, famished. E18.
ravenously adverb LME.
ravenousness noun L16.