iracund

Adjective

iracund (comparative more iracund, superlative most iracund)

1. (rare) Angry; irritable
   • Dryasdust knows only that these Preussen were a strong-boned, iracund herdsman-and-fisher people; highly averse to be interfered with, in their religion especially.1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great, published 1870, page 80
   • And the 'steal Injun hoss!' iterated and reiterated by a dozen voices, and always with the most iracund emphasis, enabled Roland to form a proper conception of the sense in which his enemies held that offence, as well as of the great merits and wide-spread fame of his new ally, whose voice gad...1863, Robert Montgomery Bird, edited by W. H. Ainsworth, Nick of the Woods: A Story of Kentucky, volume 1, page 93

   Synonyms:

   irascible, choleric

2. (rare) Characterized by anger; caused by anger; wrathful
   • Nor does he [Dante] extract any other example of iracund murder or harm from the hundreds of cases available to him from Ajax, Achilles—nay, from Cain—down to his time.1965, Robert J. Clements, Dante After Seven Centuries, published 1967