a. Also 7 exan-. [f. EX- pref.1 + L. sanguin-, sanguis blood: cf. SANGUINE.] Bloodless, wanting blood; anæmic.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., Introd. Exanguine aquaticks.
1805. W. Saunders, Min. Waters, 301. Very delicate exsanguine chlorotic habits.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 422/2. Those who have suffered large losses of blood remain exsanguine for many months.
1876. Bristowe, Th. & Pract. Med. (ed. 2), 102. Blood is admitted freely to the comparatively exsanguine parts.
fig. 1647. Ward, Simp. Cobler (ed. 3), 68. Nothing but exsanguine feeble exility of Spirit.
a. 1834. Lamb, Lett. to Barton (L.). Such versicles exsanguine and pithless, yield neither pleasure nor profit.
1872. Sir G. W. Dasent, Three to One, II. 259. There is a cake cleft in twain…—a poor ex-sanguine ghost of its former self.
