2. Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of persons.
Pope.
3. Characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as, flagitious times.
Pope.
Syn. -- Atrocious; villainous; flagrant; heinous; corrupt; profligate;
abandoned. See Atrocious.
-- Fla*gi"tious*ly, adv. -- Fla*gi"tious*ness, n.
A sentence so flagitiously unjust.
Macaulay.
Flag"man (?), n.; pl. Flagmen (&?;). One who makes signals with a flag.
Flag"on (?), n. [F. flacon, for flascon, fr. OF. flasche, from LL.
flasco. See Flask.] A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and
conveying liquors. It is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather
or stoneware rather than of glass.
A trencher of mutton chops, and a flagon of ale.
Macaulay.
Fla"grance (?), n. Flagrancy. Bp. Hall.
Fla"gran*cy (?), n.; pl. Flagrancies (#). [L. flagrantia a burning. See
Flagrant.] 1. A burning; great heat; inflammation. [Obs.]
Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes.
Bacon.
2. The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness;
enormity; excess. Steele.
Fla"grant (?), a. [L. flagrans, -antis, p. pr. of flagrate to burn,
akin to Gr. &?;: cf. F. 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.