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▪ I. adrad, ppl. a.1 Obs. or arch.|əˈdræd|
Forms: 3 adræd, 3–6 adred, adrad(de, 5 adrade, adrede, 5–6 adredde, 6 adread; revived in 9 as adrad, (adread).
[Probably weakened form of of-drad, pa. pple. of of-drede to frighten, terrify. Of-drad and a-drad are used synonymously from 1200 to 1300, about which date the former disappears.]
Frightened, greatly afraid, put in dread. Const. gen. or of; dat. inf.; subord. clause; W. Morris has at.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 31 Þe engel quað to hem ne be ȝe naht ofdredde. 1205Layamon 7575 His men weoren of⁓dredde [1250 a-dradde]. Ibid. 10952 Adræd he wes swiðe [1250 adred]. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xix. 21 For alle derke deuelles · aren adradde to heren it. c1384Chaucer H. Fame 928 Loke thou ne be Adrad of hem. a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1275, I am adredde God is not in this place. c1440Generydes 3867 He was full sore adrede of his comyng. c1440Morte Arthur (1819) 47 The quene of dethe was sore A drade. 1549Chaloner tr. Erasm. Moriæ Enc. R iv b, He nothyng helde hymself adradde of drunken Marke Anthony. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 126 Thinking to make all men adread. 1600Tourneur Metamorph. liv. 377 (1878) 208 The beast gan looke as one that were adrad. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 390 Her sister heard it breathless, and adread. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 147 Thereat adrad He turned him round. Ibid. I. i. 19, I was the less adrad Of what might come.
▪ II. † aˈdrad, ppl. a.2
dreaded. See adread v.1 |