RAGE Copy link • RAGE 1. s. Vehemence, fury, rabies; saevitia; furor (only in poetry, and post-Augustan prose). [SYN. in FURY.] Anger excited to fury, ira (anger): indignatio; iracundia (great rage, violent anger) [Vid: ANGER]: to fall into a rage, indignatione exardescere; ira incendi; into a great rage, iracundia ac stomacho exardescere; iracundia efferri or infiammari: to put anybody in a rage, stomachum alicui movere or facere; iram alicujus concire. Eager desire, studium (immodicum; e g., a rage for building, *immodicum, or insanum, aedificandi studium): aviditas (insatiable passionate desire; e.g., gloriae, imperandi, etc.): temeritas aliquid faciendi (a rash, thoughtless fondness for doing it: e.g., a rage for play, temeritas lucrandi perdendive, Tac., Germ., 24, 3). To have a rage for anything, omni impetu ferri ad aliquid. 2. v. To be furious, furere (of persons; of things personified, only in the poets): saevire (to be savagely violent; of persons, and also of things; mare ventis, Sall.; ventus, Caes., B.G., 3, 13, fin.; and poetically of lust, love, etc.). To be violently angry, indignari: ira incendi, exacerbari, or excandescere: iracundia exardescere, infiammari, efferri.