hot-liveredとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

hot-livered (comparative more hot-livered, superlative most hot-livered)

1. (archaic) Of an irritable temperament; irascible; easily angered.
   • 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 6:

     [Y]ou cite them to appeare for certaine Paragogicall contempts, before a capricious Pædantie of hot-liver’d Grammarians.