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Definition of Affear
1. v. t. To frighten.
Definition of Affear
1. Verb. (archaic) To frighten, to scare; to terrify. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Affear
1. afear [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: afear
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affear
Literary usage of Affear
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"Hence the participle affear'd, for which afraid is now used, ... To affear, or
more properly AF- FEER. An old law term, for to settle or confirm. ..."
2. The Baxter Manuscripts by James Phinney Baxter (1907)
"... Contrivance to move ye Indians in that affear, but it being such a Distance
from this place, they ar not much Concernd at Present Not but y* ye ..."
3. The Tragedie of Macbeth: A New Edition of Shakespere's Works with Critical by William Shakespeare, Mark Harvey Liddell (1903)
"affear'D is an EL. legal term meaning 'established,' NED 2 ; an official who
fixed the ... The verse lacks an impulse after "affear'd,"cp. note to v.28. ..."
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