enfierced

English

Etymology

en- +‎ fierce +‎ -ed

Adjective

enfierced (comparative more enfierced, superlative most enfierced)

1. (obsolete) Made fierce.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     His rude assault and rugged handeling
     Straunge seemed to the knight, that aye with foe
     In fayre defence and goodly menaging
     Of armes was wont to fight, yet nathemoe
     Was he abashed now not fighting so,
     But more enfierced through his currish play

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “enfierced”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• fiercened