brigose
English
Etymology
From Latin brigosus, Italian brigoso. See brigue (noun).
Adjective
brigose (comparative more brigose, superlative most brigose)
- (obsolete) contentious; quarrelsome
- Puller Timothy, The Moderation of the Church of England.
- Which two words, as conscious that they were very brigose
- and severe, (if too generally taken, therefore) he softens
- them in the next immediate words by an apology.
- Puller Timothy, The Moderation of the Church of England.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 brigose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Italian
Adjective
brigose f
- feminine plural of brigoso