[ad. L. taurīn-us, f. taurus bull: see -INE1.] Of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling a bull; bovine.

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1613.  Heywood, Brazen Age, I. Wks. 1874, III. 176. Hadst thou not stoopt thy horrid Taurine shape I would haue peece-meale rent … thy tough hide.

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1809.  E. Davies, Mythol. Druids, 173. The wounding of this bull, who represented the taurine god.

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1818.  R. P. Knight, Symbolic Lang. (1876), 79. The taurine figures of Bacchus and the Rivers have more or less of the original bull.

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1876.  M. Collins, Fr. Midnight to M., III. v. 57. Immovable as a taurine statue of Nineveh.

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  B.  sb. A taurine beast, a bull. nonce-use.

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1888.  Harper’s Mag., April, 783. Sturdy and stocky as a Jersey bull, and with not a little of that taurine’s pugnacity.

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