effray

English edit

effray (third-person singular simple present effrays, present participle effraying, simple past and past participle effrayed)

(obsolete) To frighten, startle.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Their dam vpstart, out of her den effraide, / And rushed forth […]