VI'OLENT, a. L. violentus.
1. Forcible moving or acting with physical strength urged or driven with force as a violent wind a violent stream a violent assault or blow a violent conflict.
2. Vehement outrageous as a violent attack on the minister.
3. Produced or continued by force not spontaneous or natural.
No violent state can be perpetual.
4. Produced by violence not natural as a violent death.
5. Acting by violence assailant not authorized.
Some violent hands were laid on Humphry's life.
6. Fierce vehement as a violent philippic a violent remonstrance.
We might be reckoned fierce and violent.
7. Severe extreme as violent pains.
8. Extorted not voluntary.
Vows made in pain, are violent and void.
Violent presumption, in law, is presumption that arises from circumstances which necessarily attend such facts. Such circumstances being proved, the mind infers with confidence that the fact has taken place, and this confidence is a violent presumption, which amounts to proof.
VI'OLENT, n. An assailant. Not in use.
VI'OLENT, To urge with violence. Not used.
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