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from The Century Dictionary.
- Growing angry; tending toward anger.
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Hence, when an excess of voluntarity exists without being immediately expended in the actions of the large muscles, the capillary arteries and glands acquire more energetic action, and a flushed skin is produced, with increased secretion of perspirable matter, and consequent heat, owing to the pause or interruption of voluntary action; and thus the actions of these cutaneous vessels become associated between the irascent ideas and irascent muscular actions, which are thus for a time interrupted.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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