a. Obs. [ad. L. ferōcient-em, pr. pple. of ferōcīre, f. ferox fierce.] Raging ferociously.
1654. H. L’Estrange, Chas. I. (1655), 94. So ferocient and impetuous it [fire] was, as the Ambassadour, his wife and children hardly, though half naked, escaped.
1655–62. H. More, Antid. Atheism (1662), 182. [Apostate spirits] that are more ferocient.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VI. 176. Vitriolate Acidity … able to … coagulate the ferocient Spirits.
