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Webster 1913 Edition
Agrise
A-grise′
,Verb.
I.
[AS.
āgrīsan
to dread; ā-
(cf. Goth. us-
, Ger. er-
, orig. meaning out
) + grīsan
, for gr[GREEK]san
(only in comp.), akin to OHG. gr[GREEK]is[GREEK]n
, G. grausen
, to shudder. See Grisly
.] To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
A-grise′
,Verb.
T.
1.
To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe.
[Obs.]
Wyclif.
2.
To terrify; to affright.
[Obs.]
His manly face that did his foes
agrise
. Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Agrise
AGRISE
,Verb.
I.
AGRISE
,Verb.
T.
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agrise
agrise
See also: agrisé
English
Verb
agrise (third-person singular simple present agrises, present participle agrising, simple past and past participle agrised)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified. [10th-16th c.]
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Man of Law's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:
- Þe kinges herte of pitee gan agryse, / Whan he sauȝ so benigne a creature.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:
- And powring forth their bloud in brutishe wize, / That any yron eyes to see it would agrize.
- (obsolete, transitive) To make tremble, to terrify. [13th-17th c.]
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