ensanguined

From ensanguine +‎ -ed.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛnˈsaŋɡwɪnd/

ensanguined

1. simple past and past participle of ensanguine

ensanguined (comparative more ensanguined, superlative most ensanguined)

1. Bloodstained, bloody.
   • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 194:

     The flames retired from the spot on which the blood was pouring. A volume of dark clouds rose slowly from the ensanguined earth, and ascended gradually till it reached the vault of the cavern.

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 21, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     Everybody who has the least knowledge of Heraldry and the Peerage must be aware that the noble family of which, as we know, Helen Pendennis was a member, bears for a crest, a nest full of little pelicans pecking at the ensanguined bosom of a big maternal bird, which plentifully supplies the little wretches with the nutriment on which, according to the heraldic legend, they are supposed to be brought up.

   • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 142:

     For the rest of the day he was dumb, but achieved an ensanguined filthiness through the cleaning of big fish.