violent

a. [ F., from L. violentus, from vis strength, force; probably akin to Gr. &unr_; a muscle, strength. ] 1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

Float upon a wild and violent sea. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A violent cross wind from either coast. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bring forth more violent deeds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal. [ 1913 Webster ]

These violent delights have violent ends. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

No violent state can be perpetual. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Violent presumption (Law), presumption of a fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such facts. --
Violent profits (Scots Law), rents or profits of an estate obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent; impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An assailant. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be violent; to act violently. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,
And violenteth in a sense as strong
As that which causeth it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]