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Sanguine, Sanguene, Sanguane, adj. Also: sanguyne, sangwyne, sanguein, sangweyn, sangwane, sangune. [ME and e.m.E. sanguyn (Wyclif), sangwyn (Chaucer), sangweyne (Trevisa), sangewyn (1494), sanguyne (1526), OF sanguin (c1138 in Larousse), L. sanguineus of or pertaining to blood, containing blood.]
1. Blood-red; also appar. used of other more or less red colours.Also broune sanguane, rendering, in Doug., L. lutea ‘golden yellow’, sanguineum ostrum blood-red purple, and, as noun, ferrugo the colour of iron-rust.(1) c1475 Wall. ix 1932.
His colour was sangweyn 1494 Loutfut MS 54a.
The v stone is callit a loys a sanguein stone or synamer 1513 Doug. viii x 61.
Of huge weght and bludy sangwyne [v.r. sanguyne] hew [L. loricam … Sanguineam] Ib. ix xii 21.
Turnus … in hys sanguane bludy scheild … Kest schynand fyry bemys lyke fyre flaucht Ib. xii Prol. 16.
As fresch Aurora … Ischit of hir safron bed … With sangwyne cape Ib. 107.
Flowris … sa mony diuers hew, … Sum greyce, sum gowlys, sum purpour, sum sangwane, Blanchit or brovne, fawch ȝallow mony ane c1590 J. Stewart 51/133.
Pretius stonis … of euerie sort and hew, Quhyt, purpur, sanguine, cramsie, broune and blew a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xxxv 39.
Hir comelie cheeks … Of rid and vhyt ymixt, Ar lyk the sanguene jonet flour Into the lillie fixt 1611 Reg. Panmure I xxxi.
He wos … sanguine in colloure bothe of hyd and haire, colerique of nature(2) 1513 Doug. vii i 4.
Within hyr rosy cartis cleirly schane Aurora vestit into brovn sanguane [L. Aurora … fulgebat lutea] Ib. xi xv 11.
And he hym self in brovne sangwane weill dycht [L. ferrugine clarus], … Schaftis he schot Ib. xii ii 38.
As quha byspark wald the quhite evor Indane With scarlet droppis or with brovn sangwane [L. sanguineo … ostro]
2. Of the physiological ‘complexion’: Sanguine. Also, in astrology: Tending to produce sanguineness of ‘complexion’ or temperament. 1456 Hay I 76/26.
The naturis of the sternis and planetis ar contrary; for we se that ane is calde, ane othir is hate [etc.], … the tane is sangwyne, the tothir is malancolius c1600 Medical Recipes 87b.
Gemini … is of sangune complextione
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