hot-livered en · ADJ
Meanings
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(archaic) Of an irritable temperament; irascible; easily angered.
[Y]ou cite them to appeare for certaine Paragogicall contempts, before a capricious Pædantie of hot-liver’d Grammarians.
1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 6:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more hot-livered | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most hot-livered | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |