3. Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.
4. Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success.
Syn. — Warm; ardent; lively; confident; hopeful.
Sanguine
(San"guine), n.
1. Blood color; red. Spenser.
2. Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth. [Obs.]
In sanguine and in pes he clad was all.
Chaucer. 3. (Min.) Bloodstone.
4. Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.
Sanguine
(San"guine), v. t. To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.
Sanguineless
(San"guine*less), a. Destitute of blood; pale. [R.]
Sanguinely
(San"guine*ly), adv. In a sanguine manner.
I can not speculate quite so sanguinely as he does.
Burke. Sanguineness
(San"guine*ness), n. The quality of being sanguine.
Sanguineous
(San*guin"e*ous) a. [L. sanguineus. See Sanguine.]
1. Abounding with blood; sanguine.
2. Of or pertaining to blood; bloody; constituting blood. Sir T. Browne.
3. Blood-red; crimson. Keats.
sanguinity
(san*guin"i*ty), n. The quality of being sanguine; sanguineness. Swift.
Sanguinivorous
(San"gui*niv"o*rous) a. [L. sanguis + vorare to devour.] Subsisting on blood.
Sanguinolency
(San*guin"o*len*cy) n. The state of being sanguinolent, or bloody.
Sanguinolent
(San*guin"o*lent) a. [L. sanguinolentus, from sanguis blood: cf. F. sanguinolent.] Tinged
or mingled with blood; bloody; as, sanguinolent sputa.
Sanguisuge
(San"gui*suge) n. [L. sanguisuga; sanguis blood + sugere to suck.] (Zoöl.) A bloodsucker,
or leech.
Sanguivorous
(San*guiv"o*rous) a. [L. sanguis blood + vorare to devour.] (Zoöl.) Subsisting upon
blood; — said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. See Vampire.
Sanhedrin
(San"he*drin San"he*drim) , n. [Heb. sanhedrin, fr. Gr. with + a seat, fr. to sit. See Sit.]
(Jewish Antiq.) the great council of the Jews, which consisted of seventy members, to whom the high
priest was added. It had jurisdiction of religious matters.
Sanhedrist
(San"he*drist) n. A member of the sanhedrin. Schaeffer
