enfierced

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ fierce +‎ -ed.

Adjective

enfierced (comparative more enfierced, superlative most enfierced)

1. (obsolete) Made fierce.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     His rude assault and rugged handeling
     Straunge seemed to the knight, that aye with foe
     In fayre defence and goodly menaging
     Of armes was wont to fight, yet nathemoe
     Was he abashed now not fighting so,
     But more enfierced through his currish play

References

• “enfierce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• fiercened