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† aˈgrise, v. Obs.
Forms: inf. 1 agrís-an, 2–4 agris-en, 2–7 agrise, 3–7 agryse, 4–5 agrese, 6 agryce, agryze, aggrise, aggryese, 6–7 agrize, 7 aggrize. pa. tense 1–3 agrás, 3–5 agros, 4 agroos, 5 agrose. pa. pple. 1–4 agrisen, 3–4 agrise, 4–5 agrised, 5 agresyd, 6 agryz'd.
[f. a- prefix 1 intensive + grise, same root as grís horror. Cf. grisly.]
1. intr. To shudder with terror, be full of horror; to tremble, quake, be greatly afraid or moved.
a1000Laws of Cnut (Thorpe I. 374, Bosw.) Ðæt he for helle agrise. c1230Ancren Riwle 306 Swuch ȝeor þet heouene & eorðe muwen beoðe grisliche agrisen. c1320Seuyn Sages (W.) 886 To gon therinne [i.e. in the forest] ech man agros. c1380Sir Ferumb. 3370 Of þe siȝte agrise he gan. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 830 And in his herte he sodeynly agroos, And pale he wex. c1461Play of Sacr. 902 For that presumcon gretly I agryse. 1534More Comf. agst. Tribul. iii. Wks. 1557, 1215/2 Their heartes agryce & shrynke in the remembraunce of the payne. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iii. (1641) 223/1 Already in each nook agrising, Fell, wall-break Famine ill-advising Howls hideously.
2. trans. To shudder at (with terror or abhorrence); to dread, abhor, loathe.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. (1868) 31 If þou agrisest hir fals[e] trecherie. 1382Wyclif Job xix. 17 My wif agriside my breth. 1393Gower Conf. I. 351 She hadde..after wrought in suche a wise, All the worlde it ought agrise. 1468Cov. Myst. (1841) 41 Ony worke of synful dede Oure Lord God that xulde agryse.
3. refl. (obj. orig. indirect—he shuddered to himself.)
1205Layam. 11977 Haȝel and ræin þer aræs? Þe hit i-seh him agras [1250 agros]. a1300K. Horn 867 Horn him gan to agrise, And his blod arise.
4. impers. (cf. ‘it abhors me, it repented him.’)
1205Layam. 13329 Þer uore me a-griseð. c1300Beket 688 Sumdel him agros. c1460Lybeaus Disconus 1884 Therfore hym grym agros. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. x. 28 And powring forth their bloud in brutishe wize, That any yron eyes, to see, it would agrize.
5. trans. (from impers., by defining the subject.)
a. active, To horrify, terrify, affright.
c1314Guy Warw. 49 Nas ther non that him agros. 1447O. Bokenham Lyvys of Seyntys 75 These wordis urban so sore dyde agryse. 1513Douglas æneis iv. vii. 47 My goist sall be present the to aggrise. 1596Spenser F.Q. ii. vi. 46 Engrost with mud which did them fowle agrise. 1611Florio, Legare, to agrize or set ones teeth on edge. 1647H. More Song of Soul i. i. xxx, Their course the best Astronomer might well aggrize.
b. pass., To be horrified, terrified, or afraid.
1297R. Glouc. 539 Tho were the porters agrise sore of thulke siȝte. 1387Trevisa Hidgen Rolls Ser. IV. 353 Þe fader and þe moder were agrised [abhorrerent] for to slee þe childe. c1430Lydg. Minor Poems (1840) 141 Hooly Awstyn..was of the caas agrised. 1613W. Browne Sheph. Pipe i. 501 Of whose sight he full sore was agrysed. |
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