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Definition of Rabid

1. Adjective. Of or infected by rabies.

2. Adjective. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea. "Rabid isolationist"

Definition of Rabid

1. a. Furious; raging; extremely violent.

Definition of Rabid

1. Adjective. Affected with rabies. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia. ¹

3. Adjective. Furious; raging; extremely violent. ¹

4. Adjective. very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; comparable to one with rabies. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rabid

1. affected with rabies [adj] : RABIDLY [adv]

Medical Definition of Rabid

1. 1. Furious; raging; extremely violent. "The rabid flight Of winds that ruin ships." (Chapman) 2. Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; as, a rabid socialist. 3. Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a rabid god or fox. 4. Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia; as, rabid virus. Origin: L. Rabidus, from rabere to rave. See Rage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rabid

rabblers rabbles rabbling rabblings rabboni rabbonis rabdoidal rabdology rabdomancy rabdomyo sarcoma

rabejacite rabeprazole rabi rabic rabid (current term) rabid wolf spider rabider rabidest rabidities rabidity

rabidly rabidness rabidnesses rabies rabies immune globulin rabies immunoglobulin rabies vaccine rabies virus rabietic

Literary usage of Rabid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The management and diseases of the dog by John Woodroffe Hill (1881)
"neath the endocardium in 1 rabid case. 4. Alterations in the blood alone in 83 rabid, ... The blood was of a light red-colour in 13 rabid and 1 suspected; ..."

2. A Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health by Thomas Stevenson, Shirley Forster Murphy (1898)
"1, was bitten a few minutes afterwards by the same rabid dog, ... 2, was bitten on November 6, 1886, by a dog which was furiously rabid ; it remains well. ..."

3. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1813)
"A Dissertation on the Bite of a rabid Animal; being the Substance of an Essay which received a Prize from the Royal College of Surgeons in London, ..."

4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1889)
"Out of 24 cases severely bitten by rabid wolves, 2 arrived at the hospital ... Of 4 bitten by a rabid • hog, none fell ill. To this number we must add 4 ..."

5. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1812)
"V. A Dissertation on the Bite of a rabid Animal s being the substance of an Essay "which received a Prize from the Royal College of Surgeons in London, ..."

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