fury : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fury	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for fury
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fury n a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" Synonym(s): fury, rage, madness state of violent mental agitation Synonym(s): craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" Synonym(s): ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals Synonym(s): Fury, Eumenides, Erinyes
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fury \Fu"ry\, n. [L. fur.] A thief. [Obs.] Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. --J. Fleteher.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fury \Fu"ry\, n.; pl. {Furies}. [L. furia, fr. furere to rage: cf. F. furie. Cf. {Furor}.] 1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. --Sir P. Sidney. 2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. [bd]Fury of the wind.[b8] --Shak. I do oppose my patience to his fury. --Shak. 3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Meg[91]ra; the Erinyes or Eumenides. The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him. --Emerson. 4. One of the Parc[91], or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.] Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. --Milton. 5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant. Syn: Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See {Anger}.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Fury as attributed to God, is a figurative expression for dispensing afflictive judgments (Lev. 26:28; Job 20:23; Isa. 63:3; Jer. 4:4; Ezek. 5:13; Dan. 9:16; Zech. 8:2).