frighted, ppl. a.
(ˈfraɪtɪd)
[f. fright v. + -ed1.]
Affected with fright, scared.
| 1647 Trapp Mellif. Theolog. in Comm. Epist. 727 As a frighted worme wriggles into its hole. 1650 W. Brough Sacr. Princ. (1659) 480 The sinner..must be [penitent] not from a frighted phansie. 1700 Dennis Iphigenia 49 Frighted Wolves, with dreadful Howl, Her dire approach declare. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. x. 61 The man must think he has a frighted fool to deal with. 1839 Longfellow Hesperus vii, She shuddered..like a frighted steed. 1870 Bryant Iliad II. xxii. 311 Driven within the city walls Like frighted fawns. |
¶ b. Of a region or space: Pervaded with fear.
Milton's frighted deep is echoed by later writers.
| 1667 Milton P.L. ii. 994 Such a numerous host Fled not in silence through the frighted deep. 1715–20 Pope Iliad xiv. 446 Like lightning flashing through the frighted Skies. a 1780 Blake Tiriel vii. 1 She..led him over mountains and through frighted vales. 1808 J. Barlow Columb. ii. 207 Ere Rome's first Eagle clave the frighted air. |
Hence ˈfrightedly adv., in a frighted manner.
| 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. lix. 395 An accent rather frightedly and hoarsely inward than shrilly clamorous. |