Part 4350

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; <as>as, <ex>flagitious</ex> times</as>.</def>

<i>Pope.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Atrocious; villainous; flagrant; heinous; corrupt; profligate; abandoned. See <er>Atracious</er>. -- <wordforms><wf>Fla*gi"tious*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Fla*gi"tious*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></syn></wordforms>

<blockquote>A sentence so <b>flagitiously</b> unjust. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flagman</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Flag"man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Flagmen</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <def>One who makes signals with a flag.</def>

<h1>Flagon</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Flag"on</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>flacon</ets>, for <ets>flascon</ets>, fr. OF. <ets>flasche</ets>, from LL. <ets>flasco</ets>. See <er>Flask</er>.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>A trencher of mutton chops, and a <b>flagon</b> of ale. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flagrance</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Fla"grance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Flagrancy.</def>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<h1>Flagrancy</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Fla"gran*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Flagrancies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>flagrantia</ets> a burning. See <er>Flagrant</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A burning; great heat; inflammation.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Lust causeth a <b>flagrancy</b> in the eyes. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess.</def>

<i>Steele.</i>

<h1>Flagrant</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Fla"grant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>flagrans</ets>, <ets>-antis</ets>, p.pr. of <ets>flagrate</ets> to burn, akin to Gr. <?/: cf. F. <ets>flagrant</ets>. Cf. <er>Flame</er>, <er>Phlox</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.</def>

<blockquote>The beadle's lash still <b>flagrant</b> on their back. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A young man yet <b>flagrant</b> from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. <i>De Quincey.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Flagrant</b> desires and affections. <i>Hooker.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.</def>

<blockquote>A war the most powerful of the native tribes was <b>flagrant</b>. <i>Palfrey.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See <er>Atrocious</er>.</syn>

<h1>Flagrantly</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Fla"grant*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a flagrant manner.</def>