furies
[希.羅神] 復仇的三女神
Fu·ries n. pl. See Fury, 3.
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Fu·ry, n.; pl. Furies
1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. --Sir P. Sidney.
2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. “Fury of the wind.”
I do oppose my patience to his fury. --Shak.
3. pl. Greek Myth. The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him. --Emerson.
4. One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.]
Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life. --Milton.
5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
Syn: -- Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See Anger.
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