terriculament
English
editNoun
editterriculament (plural terriculaments)
- (obsolete) A source of unnecessary or uncontrollable fear.
- 1589, William Fulke, Confutation of the Rhemish New Testament (Annotation on Hebrews 10:31:
- […] the paines of purgatorie are but a vaine terriculament, to make men pay deere for popish masses, merites, satisfactions and pardons.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, (1832 publication):
- [M]any times such terriculaments may proceed from natural causes, and all other senses may be deluded.
References
edit- The Fulke and Burton quotations originally appeared here.