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Definition of Agrise
1. v. i. To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear.
2. v. t. To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe.
Definition of Agrise
1. Verb. (obsolete transitive) to tremble ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete intransitive) to make tremble, to terrify ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Agrise
1. to terrify [v AGRISED, AGRISING, AGRISES] - See also: terrify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agrise
Literary usage of Agrise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... the surname of a famous Arab mathematician who lived in the 9th cent. See Dozy,
Glossaire, 131. agrise, ..."
2. Altenglische Sprachproben nebst einem Wörterbuch by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner, Hugo Bieling (1878)
"Therfore hym grym agros. LYB. Disc. 1884. Of Homes wordes him agros. GESTE KH.
1326. 3. Reflexiv scheint es zu stehen in: Hörn him gan to agrise. КН. 867. ..."
3. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"Suche rulers mowen of God agrise. Ib., 2780. The gode knyght up aros, Of Homes
wordes him ... AGROPE, e. To grope ; to search out. AGROS. See agrise. ..."
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