Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To cause to shudder or tremble; terrify; disgust.
- To abhor.
- To make frightful; disfigure.
- To shudder; tremble with fear; be much moved.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear.
- v. obsolete To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe.
- v. obsolete To terrify; to affright.
Etymologies
- Old English āgrīsan. (Wiktionary)
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garyth123 to tremble; to make tremble, to terrify
The kynges herte of pitee gan agryse, Whan he saugh so benigne a creature.
Chaucer, The Man Of Law’s Tale Dec 4, 2008