Anger v.

also 3 anngre, 4 angrye, 4–6 -re, 5 -ar, -ur. [a. ON. angr-a to grieve, vex, f. angr: see ANGER sb.]

  † 1.  To distress, trouble, vex, hurt, wound, Obs.

c. 1200.  Ormin, 432. Nan þing … Þatt mihhte ohht anngrenn oþre.

c. 1340.  Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 799. [The ald man] is ofte angerd, and ay pleynand.

1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B. XIV. 244. Þough auarice wolde angre [1393 angrye] þe pore.

c. 1400.  Rom. Rose, 3526. Is it youre ese Hym for to angre or disese?

c. 1440.  Gesta Rom., I. lii. 183. To be turmentide, angride, and bete for oure defavtis.

  2.  Hence, through the idea of irritate: To excite to wrath, make angry, enrage. a. trans.

1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B. V. 117. Who-so hath more þan I, þat angreth me sore.

1494.  Fabyan, II. xxxvii. 26. Lyghtly he slewe all men y^t hym tened or angred.

1530.  Palsgr., 431/2. I angre, I chafe or bringe out of pacience. Je courrouce.—Beware howe you anger hym.

1592.  Shaks., Rom. & Jul., II. iv. 215. I anger her sometimes, and tell her that Paris is the properer man.

1662.  Fuller, Worthies (1840), III. 130. A person free from passion, whom none could anger out of his ordinary temper.

1758.  Johnson, Idler, No. 9, ¶ 1. You have both pleased and angered me.

1841.  Miall, Nonconf., I. 9. It would be difficult to anger the people just now.

1882.  Athenæum, No. 2831. 121/3. He angered everybody who was affected by the project.

  b.  impers.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, XI. 4571. Hit angris to abide, Or tary … when tulkes ben redy.

c. 1440.  Morte Arth., 1662. Me angers at Arthure.

1592.  Shaks., Rom. & Jul., II. i. 22. T’would anger him To raise a spirit in his Mistresse circle.

c. 1735.  Pope, Epil. Sat., II. 150. It anger’d Turenne … To see a footman kick’d that took his pay.

1809.  Southey, Lett., II. 165. It angers me when people … depreciate the Spaniards.

  † c.  refl. To vex oneself, become angry. Obs.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, VI. 2236. Angurs you noht. Ibid., XVI. 7329. He angurt hym full euyll.

a. 1450.  Knt. de la Tour (1868), 20. Anger you not … or that that he saithe.

  d.  intr. (refl. pron. omitted.) rare.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, XV. 6911. Vlixes … angrit full sore.

1786.  Burns, Sc. Drink, xiii. When neebors anger at a plea.

  † 3.  To irritate or inflame a sore. Obs. or dial.

a. 1626.  Bacon (J.). He … maketh the wound bleed inwards, and angereth malign ulcers.

c. 1735.  Pope, Donne Sat., IV. 119. Itch most hurts when anger’d to a sore.

1760.  Sterne, Tr. Shandy, II. iv. 108. Uncle Toby, perceiving that [it] … angered his wound, left off the study of projectiles.