furiosant

Adjective

furiosant (not comparable)

1. (uncommon, ox, etc) Passant with head lowered, as if preparing to charge.
   • RANGANT, a term used, in old heraldry, for the bull, bugle, or buffalo, when borne furiosant, or in a rage, or madness.1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica: Or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry
   • An old term for the bull etc., enraged, or furiosant.2009 06, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 107
2. (uncommon) Furious.
   • These men step out with much vim and vigor in a regular furiosant march of swift, long, strong strides that stop at nothing, and the luckless pedestrian who happens to get in their way is apt to be knocked down and run over.1920, Joseph Amasa Munk, Southwest Sketches, page 85
   • ... the inane whim of the furiosant fanatics of Canadian Independence! But I must come back to the blaring headlines with which the statement by the Lord Chancellor of England was adorned - or obscured by the Daily Press of Canada.1921, The Canadian Law Times, page 163