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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sanguine \San"guine\, v. t. To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.
Sanguine \San"guine\, a. [F. sanguin, L. sanguineus, fr. sanguis blood. Cf. Sanguineous.]
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Having the color of blood; red.
Of his complexion he was sanguine.
--Chaucer.Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe.
--Milton. Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.
Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.
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Anticipating the best; cheerfully optimistic; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success; a sanguine disposition.
Syn: Warm; ardent; lively; confident; hopeful; optimistic.
Sanguine \San"guine\, n.
Blood color; red.
--Spenser.-
Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth. [Obs.]
In sanguine and in pes he clad was all.
--Chaucer. (Min.) Bloodstone.
Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"blood-red," late 14c. (late 12c. as a surname), from Old French sanguin (fem. sanguine), from Latin sanguineus "of blood," also "bloody, bloodthirsty," from sanguis (genitive sanguinis) "blood" (see sanguinary). Meaning "cheerful, hopeful, confident" first attested c.1500, because these qualities were thought in medieval physiology to spring from an excess of blood as one of the four humors. Also in Middle English as a noun, "type of red cloth" (early 14c.). \n\n
Wiktionary
1 Having the colour of blood; red. 2 (context obsolete physiology English) Having a bodily constitution characterised by a preponderance of blood over the other bodily humours, thought to be marked by irresponsible mirth; indulgent in pleasure to the exclusion of important matters. 3 Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood. 4 Warm; ardent. 5 Anticipating the best; optimistic; not despondent; confident; full of hope. n. 1 Blood colour; red. 2 Anything of a blood-red colour, as cloth. 3 (context tincture English) A tincture, seldom used, of a blood-red colour (not to be confused with murrey). 4 bloodstone. 5 Red crayon. See the Note under crayon, 1. v
To stain with blood; to impart the colour of blood to; to ensanguine.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Sanguine is a stain, or non-standard tincture in heraldry, of a blood-red colour. In the past it was sometimes taken to be equivalent to murrey, but they are now considered two distinct tinctures. It is a brownish red, the colour of arterial blood. Roundels of sanguine are referred to as guzes, from the Turkish göz, meaning an eye.
Sanguine or red chalk is chalk of a reddish-brown colour, so called because it resembles the colour of dried blood. It has been popular for centuries for drawing (where white chalk only works on coloured paper), and the term also describes a drawing done in sanguine. The word comes via French from the Italian sanguigna and originally from the Latin "sanguis."
Sanguine is a four piece female fronted alternative metal/rock band formed in Exeter in the UK. They have released one EP/single/DVD "Live Consume Drive" (2008), one self-titled album "Sanguine" (2012) and one professional studio album "Black Sheep" (2016).
Sanguine is a red pigment
Sanguine may also refer to:
- Sanguine, one of the four humors in pre-modern medicine
- Sanguine, a personality type, one of the four temperaments
- Sanguine, a Daedric Prince in the video game franchise The Elder Scrolls
- Sanguine (band), an alt-metal band
- Sanguine (heraldry), a tincture in heraldry
- Sanguine (transmitter), an antenna of the US Navy
- Sanguine, a fruit, type of blood orange
- HMS Sanguine (P266), a submarine
- Sanguine Productions, a company
- Project Sanguine, a research project for radio communication with submarines
Usage examples of "sanguine".
His expression, e regio sanguine ortos, credunt, betrays, however, some doubt or suspicion.
Sanguine Mountain rived the earth, Hilel and his horse-traders had selected a brushy, steep-sided ravine and blocked the ends with stumps and slash.
But, on the first reverses of hope in the progress of French liberty, the sanguine eagerness for good overleaped the solution of these questions, and for a time extinguished itself in the unexpectedness of their result.
And then, yielding to meditations of future success, partaking strongly of the inexperienced and sanguine temperament of the soliloquist, Clarence passed the hours till his pillow summoned him to dreams no less ardent and perhaps no less unreal.
I was a small boy and my dear stepmother Shonda yet lived, he was a noble Crown Prince, a loving husband and father, and a man of sanguine and kindly spirit.
The lady had been bred in the country, was unacquainted with the world, and of a very sanguine disposition, which her short trial of matrimony had not served to cool.
Miss Kusanagi-Jones was less sanguine about the unescorted trip, arguing with Katherinessen in low tones.
Lord Ulswater,--of high and ancient birth, of great wealth, young, unexceptionable in person and character, and warmly attached to you, it would be impossible even for the sanguine heart of a parent to ask for you a more eligible match.
Court to the American cause was as favorable as it had ever been, and Adams came away from these initial discussions feeling even more sanguine.
The comparative contentment of the great Sheikh at this moment, her silence, and the sudden departure of Fakredeen, induced Baroni to believe that there was yet something on the cards, and, being of a sanguine disposition, he sincerely encouraged his master, who, however, did not appear to be very desponding.
Pemulis is looking oddly sanguine and confident after a couple minutes futzing with the cans of water, rinsing out the oral cavity and so on.
Phyllis Dartmoor, had initially been as hostile toward the group as the council members, but after a short flurry of fruitless efforts to force the Voyagers out of town, she had become surprisingly sanguine about the situation.
The tragic deaths of Galerius and Maximin soon gratified the resentment, and fulfilled the sanguine expectations, of the Christians.
The recovery of Denbigh was as rapid as the most sanguine expectation of his friends could hope for, and in ten days he left his bed, and would sit an hour or two at a time in his dressing-room, where Mrs.
It proved to be the harem of the Governor of Hamadan, and if for a moment the too sanguine fancy of the captor experienced a passing pang of disappointment, the prize at least obtained, as we have seen, the freedom and security of his dear though distant friends.