hot-livered
English
Adjective
hot-livered (comparative more hot-livered, superlative most hot-livered)
- (archaic) Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible.
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, OCLC 926209975:
- you cite them to appear for certain paragogical contempts , before a capacious pedanty of hot-livered grammarians
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hot-livered in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)