† fordreadv.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To be in dread of.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of terror or horror > be terrified [verb (intransitive)]
fordreadc1175
dreada1240
breec1375
tremblec1475
misdread1597
to sweat blood1924
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 147 [Zacariȝe] warrþ drefedd. & forrdredd Off þatt he sahh þatt enngell.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2088 Gracian þe emperour..of him uor dradde ynou.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1557 Quan ysaac it under-nam..Wel selkuðlike he wurð for-dred.
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 61 Myn herte of dedes wes fordred.
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