agrise
See also: agrisé
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old English āgrīsan. Compare and see English grisly.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editagrise (third-person singular simple present agrises, present participle agrising, simple past and past participle agrised)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified. [10th–16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And powring forth their bloud in brutishe wize,
That any yron eyes to see it would agrize.
- (obsolete, transitive) To make tremble, to terrify. [13th–17th c.]
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editSpanish
editVerb
editagrise
- inflection of agrisar: