Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - sanguine
Sanguine
sanguine
adj. & n. --adj. 1 optimistic; confident. 2 (of the complexion) florid; bright; ruddy. 3 hist. of a ruddy complexion with a courageous and hopeful amorous disposition. 4 hist. of the temperament in which blood predominates over the other humours. 5 Heraldry or literary blood red. 6 archaic bloody; bloodthirsty. --n. 1 a blood-red colour. 2 a crayon of chalk coloured red or flesh with iron oxide. Derivatives sanguinely adv. sanguineness n. (both in sense 1 of n.). Etymology: ME f. OF sanguin -ine blood-red f. L sanguineus (as SANGUINARY)
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I. adjective Etymology: Middle English sanguin, from Anglo-French, from Latin ~us, from sanguin-, sanguis Date: 14th century bloodred, 2. consisting of or relating to blood, bloodthirsty, sanguinary, ruddy, having blood as the predominating bodily humor, confident, optimistic, ~ly adverb ~ness noun sanguinity noun II. noun Date: 15th century a moderate to strong red ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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