1. Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; — said of acts, crimes, etc.
Debauched principles and flagitious practices.
I. Taylor. 2. Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; — said of persons. Pope.
3. Characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as, flagitious times. Pope.
Syn. — Atrocious; villainous; flagrant; heinous; corrupt; profligate; abandoned. See Atrocious.
— Fla*gi"tious*ly, adv. — Fla*gi"tious*ness, n.
A sentence so flagitiously unjust.
Macaulay. Flagman
(Flag"man) n.; pl. Flagmen One who makes signals with a flag.
Flagon
(Flag"on) n. [F. flacon, for flascon, fr. OF. flasche, from LL. flasco. See Flask.] A vessel
with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. It is generally larger than a bottle, and of
leather or stoneware rather than of glass.
A trencher of mutton chops, and a flagon of ale.
Macaulay. Flagrance
(Fla"grance) n. Flagrancy. Bp. Hall.
Flagrancy
(Fla"gran*cy) n.; pl. Flagrancies [L. flagrantia a burning. See Flagrant.]
1. A burning; great heat; inflammation. [Obs.]
Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes.
Bacon. 2. The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess. Steele.
Flagrant
(Fla"grant) a. [L. flagrans, -antis, p. pr. of flagrate to burn, akin to Gr. : cf. F. flagrant. Cf.
Flame, Phlox.]
1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.
The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back.
Prior.
A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle.
De Quincey.
Flagrant desires and affections.
Hooker. 2. Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.
A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant.
Palfrey. 3. Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.
Syn. — Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See Atrocious.
Flagrantly
(Fla"grant*ly), adv. In a flagrant manner.
Flagrate
(Fla"grate) v. t. [L. flagrare, flagratum, v.i. & t., to burn.] To burn. [Obs.] Greenhill.
Flagration
(Fla*gra"tion) n. A conflagration. [Obs.]
