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terrify, v.|ˈtɛrɪfaɪ|
[ad. L. terrificāre to frighten, f. terrificus terrific: see -fy. Cf. F. terrifier (Littré).]
1. trans. To make much afraid, to fill with terror, to frighten or alarm greatly. Also absol.
1578Chr. Prayers in Priv. Prayers (Parker Soc.) 501 Thou terrifiest none but such as most horribly are afraid of thee. 1638Penit. Conf. ii. (1657) 15 No Conscience to accuse, no Devil to terrifie. 1667Milton P.L. x. 338 Terrifi'd Hee fled, not hoping to escape, but shun The present. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) V. 215 The fowler then discovers himself, and terrifies the quail, who..entangles himself the more in the net, and is taken. 1868Morris Earthly Par. I. Son of Crœsus xxiii, Girls, sent their water-jars to fill, Would come back pale, too terrified to cry.
b. To drive from, out of, into, etc. by terrifying; to deter from; to frighten out of, into, etc.
1575tr. Luther's Comm. Gal. iii. 3. 100 b, To exhort the Galathians, and to terrifie them from a double daunger. 1690Nesse Hist. & Myst. O. & N.T. I. 53 Those very angels which terrified them both from the tree. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xxxvii, It may terrify her to death in the present weak state of her nerves. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. iv. (1880) 55 The people who remained were at length terrified into orthodoxy.
2. To irritate, torment, worry, harass, annoy, tease. Now only dial.
1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. iii, Working only by terrifying Plaisters upon the rind and orifice of the Sore. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Terrify, to teize; irritate; annoy. A blister or a caustic is said to terrify a patient. 1876N. & Q. 5th Ser. VI. 56/1 He has been terrified all night by those insects. 1898J. A. Gibbs Cotswold Vill. viii. 164 ‘Terrify him, sir; keep on terrifying of him’. This does not mean that you are to frighten the fish; on the contrary, he is urging you to stick to him till he gets tired of being harassed.
†3. To make terrible. Obs. rare—1.
1643Milton Divorce ii. iii, If the law, instead of aggravating and terrifying sin, shall give out licence, it foils itself.
Hence ˈterrified |-faɪd| ppl. a. (whence ˈterrifiedly adv.); ˈterrifying vbl. n. and ppl. a. (whence ˈterrifyingly adv.); also ˈterrifier |-faɪə(r)|, one who or that which terrifies.
1821Scott Kenilw. xxxiv, Elizabeth..hastened..along the principal alley of the Pleasance, dragging with her the *terrified Countess. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. i, Her terrified expostulation stopped him.
1890Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 313 She is still *terrifiedly clutching his hand.
1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely Suppl. 548 In stead of a *terrifier, he hath brought him about now, to be a praiser. 1870R. C. Jebb Sophocles' Electra (ed. 2) 72/1 The terrifier of horses.
1617J. Woodford in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 199 A gibbet having been set up..for the *terrifying of the people.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxxviii. xi, Thou dost me fill..With *terrifying feares. 1746–7Hervey Medit. (1818) 269 At the least terrifying appearance, they start from their seats. 1849Stovel Introd. Canne's Necess. 71 Exhibitions of terrifying depravity.
1805T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. (1806) I. 271 If your honour had not been so *terrifyingly flurried, I should have given you the message before. 1908H. G. Wells War in Air vi. 194 It had crept in upon his mind, chillingly terrifyingly, that these illuminated black masses were great offices afire. 1944D. Welch In Youth is Pleasure v. 89 He grinned, and then began to make the flesh round his eyes terrifyingly inflamed. |
