2. The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess. Steele.
FLAGRANT Fla"grant, a. Etym: [L. flagrans, -antis, p.pr. of flagrate to burn, akin to Gr. flagrant. Cf. Flame, Phlox.]
1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.
The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior.
A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the
beadle. De Quincey.
Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker.
2. Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging. A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant. Palfrey.
3. Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.
Syn.
— Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See Atrocious.
FLAGRANTLY
Fla"grant*ly, adv.
Defn: In a flagrant manner.
FLAGRATE
Fla"grate, v. t. Etym: [L. flagrare, flagratum, v.i. & t., to burn.]
Defn: To burn. [Obs.] Greenhill.