a. poet. and rhet. Also 7 viride. [ad. L. virid-is green, blooming, vigorous.] Green, verdant.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, XII. xciv. Her tombe was not of viride Spartane greet, Nor yet by cunning hand of Scopas wrought.
1658. H. Crompton, Pierides, 82.
| The virid Marjoram | |
| Her sparkling beauty did but see. |
1794. T. Taylor, Pausanias’ Descr. Greece, I. 61. There is also a temple of Earth the nurse of youths, and of virid Ceres.
1812. H. & J. Smith, Rej. Addr., x. (1873), 97. The pillars … blooming in virid antiquity, like two massy evergreens.
1866. J. B. Rose, trans. Ovid’s Met., 341. And as he spoke the virid bough upon Wound as he was, the dragon turned to stone.
