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horrific, a.|hɒˈrɪfɪk|
[a. F. horrifique (1532 Rabelais) or ad. L. horrific-us, causing tremor or terror, frightful, f. stem of horrēre: see horre v. and -fic.]
Causing horror, horrifying.
1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. xxxiv. 219 Now (my Masters) you have heard a beginning of the horrifick history. 1730–46Thomson Autumn 782 The huge encumbrance of horrific woods. 1799Jane West Tale of Times I. 5 The lover of the wonderful and the admirer of the horrific. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. II. xxiii. 259 To add the horrific incidents. 1856Masson Ess., Three Devils 83 The horrific plays a much less important part in human experience than it once did. 1879G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie I. xviii. 243 A thrill of horrific wonder and delight.
Hence hoˈrrifically adv., in a horrific manner.
a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxiii. 193 Mars..did raise his Voice..horrifically loud. 1830Westm. Rev. XIII. 364 Something horrifically picturesque. 1972Daily Tel. 24 Feb. 2/6 The Aldershot explosion which caused the deaths of seven people went ‘horrifically wrong’ as an act of IRA retaliation, said Miss Bernadette Devlin. 1972Oxford Times 27 Oct. 19/1 A young doctor is promised a job..if he can discover which of four horrifically insane patients is really the head of the asylum. |