▪ I. † ˈfretish, ˈfretize, v.1 Obs.
Also 6 fretissh, freatish, 6–7 frettish, -ize.
[f. frediss- lengthened stem of OFr. fredir, freidir (Fr. froidir), f. freid (Fr. froid) cold.]
trans. To chill, benumb. Only in pass.
| 1523 St. Papers Hen. VIII, IV. 52 Many of their horses loste and fretished. 1535 Ibid. IX. 147, I could get neither bread, drink, nor fire..till I was fretisshed. 1581 Mulcaster Positions xliii. (1887) 265 That foolish fellow was fretished for cold. 1607 T. Walkington Opt. Glass 58 Reviving those remote parts, which without his influence woulde otherwise be frettisht with a chilnes. |
Hence ˈfretished ppl. a.; ˈfretishing, vbl. n., a weakness in a horse's feet, the result of a chill, the pinching of a shoe, etc.; ˈfretishing ppl. a., becoming ‘fretished’.
| 1581 Mulcaster Posit. vi. (1887) 48 Daunsing..strengtheneth weake hippes, fainting legges, freatishing feete. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 292 Of the fretized, broken, and rotten lungs. 1610 Markham Masterp. ii. lxii. 322 If the horse be foundred through the straitnesse of a shoo, which..is not a founder, but a frettizing which is a degree lesse then foundring. 1617 ― Caval. viii. 8 Nowe if his Horse haue beene formerly foundred or frettised vpon his feete. 1639 T. de la Grey Compl. Horsem. 38 We prick the two Toe-veines which do help Frettizing. |
▪ II. † ˈfretish, ˈfretize, v.2 Obs.
In 7 frettish.
[Connected with OF. fraitis (Godef.), said of capitals of columns, and app. rendering ‘quasi in modum retis’ in 1 Kings vii. 17. Cf. fret n.1, v.2
If this be a pa. pple., the Eng. vb. is prob. ad. OF. *fraitiss-, *fraitir. If it be an adj.:—L. type ? *fracticius, the Eng. vb. is prob. formed upon it.]
trans. = fret v.2 Hence † ˈfretized ppl. a., † ˈfretizing vbl. n.
| 1579–80 North Plutarch (1676) 36 The fretised seelings curiously wrought. 1601 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 260 Payde also vnto Cobbe for frettishing the gallerie and the great chamber 30{supl}. 1606 Breton Sydney's Ourania ii, In purple robe with starres yfretized. Ibid. xvi, A Carkanet..Fretized with Carbuncles. 1626 T. H. Caussin's Holy Crt. 85 This..beautiful embowed frettizing of the heauenly Orbes. a 1693 Urquhart Rabelais iii. lii. 429 Angiports..frettized and embowed Seelings. 1703 T. S. Art's Improv. i. 43 Frettized work. |