Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

Threat

Threat

(thrĕt)
,
Noun.
[AS.
þreát
, akin to ā
þreótan
to vex, G. ver
driessen
, OHG. ir
driozan
, Icel.
þrjōta
to fail, want, lack, Goth. us
þriutan
to vex, to trouble, Russ.
trudite
to impose a task, irritate, vex, L.
trudere
to push. Cf.
Abstruse
,
Intrude
,
Obstrude
,
Protrude
.]
The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your
threats
.
Shakespeare

Threat

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[OE.
þreten
, AS.
þreátian
. See
Threat
,
Noun.
]
To threaten.
[Obs. or Poetic]
Shak.
Of all his
threating
reck not a mite.
Chaucer.
Our dreaded admiral from far they
threat
.
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Threat

THREAT

,
Noun.
thret. A menace; denunciation of ill; declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, loss or pain on another.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.

THREAT

,
Verb.
T.
thret. To threaten, which see. Threat is used only in poetry.

Similar Results