A´NGER. n.f. [a word of no certain etymology, but,
with most probability, derived by Skinner from ange, Sax. vexd ; which, however, seems to come originally from the Latin ango.]
1. Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind, upon the receipt of
any injury, with a present purpose of revenge.
Locke. Anger.
Anger is like a full hot horse, who being allow’d his way, Self-mettle
tires him.
Shakesp. Henry VIII.
Was the Lord
displeased against the rivers ? was thine anger
against the rivers ? was thy wrath
against the sea that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of
salvation ?
Habb. iii. 8.
2. Anger is, according to some, a transient hatred, or at least very
like it.
South.
Pain, or smart, of a
sore or swelling. In this sense it seems
plainly deducible from anger.
I made the experiment, setting the moxa where
the first violence of my pain began and where the greatest anger and soreness
still continued, notwithstanding the swelling of my foot.
Temple’s Miscellanies.
“Anger”: Samuel Johnson, The
Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
