† agrisev.
Obsolete.
1.
a. intransitive. To shudder with horror; to be filled with fear, dread, or awe; to be terrified. Frequently in to agrise of (also for) something: to experience fear, dread, or horror of something.
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the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > shudder with fear
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agriseOE
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OE Laws of Cnut (Nero) i. xxv. 304 We lærað eac georne manna gehwylcne, þæt he..Domdæg ondræde & for helle agrise.
a1225 ( Rule St. Benet (Winteney) (1888) iv. 25 Of domesdag beon ofdrad and of hellewite agrisan [OE Corpus Cambr. ondrædan; L. epauescere].
c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) l. 872 (MED) To gon þerinne [i.e. in the forest] ech man agros.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3370 Of þe siȝte agrise he gan.
c1450 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Fairf. 16) (1879) l. 830 And in his herte he sodeynly a-groos And pale he wex.
?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 904 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 86 For that pres[u]mpcion gretly I agryse.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. i. sig. N.viv Theyr heartes agryce, and shrinke in the remembraunce of the payne.
b. transitive (reflexive). To experience fear, dread, or awe; to be horrified, terrified.
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the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (reflexive)] > shudder with fear
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c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) l. 1058 Loke nu..hweðer þe beo leouere don þet ich þe leare..oðer..dei dreoriliche deien þet ham schal a-grisen alle þet hit bihaldeð.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5975 Haȝel & ræin þer aræs þe hit i-seh him agras [c1300 Otho a-gros].
c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) l. 867 (MED) Horn him gan to agrise, & his blod arise.
2.
a. transitive. To frighten greatly, terrify.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > horrify [verb (transitive)]
agrisec1225
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curl1530
abhor1531
to chill the (also a person's) blood1637
horror1642
horrorize1820
horrify1822
behorror1857
to curl (a person's) hair1949
c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 28 (MED) Þet milde meiden Margarte grap þet grisliche þing þet hire ne agras nawiht.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 1460 (MED) Nas þer non þat him agros.
1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 2611 These wordis vrban so sore dyde agryse.
1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados iv. vii. 47 My goist sal be present, the to aggrise.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R8 Engrost with mud, which did them fowle agrise.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Legare, to agrize or set ones teeth on edge.
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia vii. 299 The rage of Armes their mindes agrise.
b. transitive. In passive. With of. To be terrified; to be filled with fear or dread.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of terror or horror > be terrified of [verb (transitive)]
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c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) l. 493 (MED) Heo..of þet grisliche gra weren agrisen swiðe.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 11178 (MED) Þo were þe porters agrise sore of þulke siȝte.
c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Legend St. Austin (Harl. 2255) l. 171 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 198 Hooly Awstyn..was of the caas agrised.
1613 W. Browne Shepherd's Pipe i. 501 Of whose sight he full sore was agrysed.
c. transitive. impersonal. To terrify.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > terrify [verb (transitive)]
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affrightOE
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affrighten1615
ter-terrifya1618
flaite1642
pavefy1656
repall1687
hobgoblin1707
scarify1794
to scare the daylights out of1951
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6652 Þer-uore me a-griseð.
c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 688 Sumdel him agros.
c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) l. 1884 Þer-fore hym grym agros.
3. transitive. To shudder with horror at (a person's conduct, appearance, etc.); to abhor; to loathe, revile.Quot. 1596 is taken by N.E.D. (1884) as showing sense 2c.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > emotion compounded of fear and loathing > shudder at or dread [verb (transitive)]
ofshakeOE
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perhorresce1882
the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (transitive)] > shudder at with terror or abhorrence
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xix. 17 My wif agriside my breth.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. l. 2160 Sche hadde..after wroghte in such a wise That al the world it oghte agrise.
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) ii. pr. i. l. 777 If þou agrised [read agrisest] hir fals[e] trecherie.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 36 Ony werke of synful dede, oure lord god that xulde a-gryse.
1513 Lydgate's Troye Bk. (Pynson) v. xxxvi. sig. B.iv/1 This slaughter, & this lothsome dede By vlixes..Whiche euery herte, ought to agryse.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. x. sig. V8 And powring forth their bloud in brutishe wize, That any yron eyes, to see it would agrize . View more context for this quotation
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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