ensanguined

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of ensanguine

adj

1. Bloodstained, bloody.

   “The flames retired from the spot on which the blood was pouring. A volume of dark clouds rose slowly from the ensanguined earth, and ascended gradually till it reached the vault of the cavern.”

   “Everybody who has the least knowledge of Heraldry and the Peerage must be aware that the noble family of which, as we know, Helen Pendennis was a member, bears for a crest, a nest full of little pelicans pecking at the ensanguined bosom of a big maternal bird, which plentifully supplies the little wretches with the nutriment on which, according to the heraldic legend, they are supposed to be brought up.”

   “For the rest of the day he was dumb, but achieved an ensanguined filthiness through the cleaning of big fish.”