▪ I. † grise, a. Obs.
Also 3 greis, 5 gryse.
[? Abstracted from grisly a.]
Terrible; fearful.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 18649 Wit his cri þat es sua grise [Gött. greis]. Ibid. 23249 Of helle..þe aghtand pine it es ful grise. 1460 Lybeaus Disc. 597 To fyght with bothe yn same Hyt wer no chyldes game, That beth so grymme and gryse. ? a 1500 Ser J. Mandevelle 59 in Hazl. E.E.P. I. 157 Or elles..Depyst in helle in paynes grise Salbee our set. |
▪ II. † grise, v. Obs.
Forms: 3–4 grise-n, 4 -yn, 4–5 gryse, grise, 5 gryes, 6 Sc. gryis. pa. tense 4 gros, grisede.
[ME. grīsen str. vb. (later wk.):—OE. *gr{iacu}san, implied in á-gr{iacu}san (recorded in pres. stem only: see agrise v.) = MDu., MLG. grisen (Du. grijzen, pa. tense grees, pa. pple. gegrezen); cf. MHG. grisenlich grisly.
The root *grī̆s- is not found in Goth. or Scandinavian, nor is its equivalent found outside Teut. Possibly it may have originated by onomatopœic modification from the synonymous *greus-, grus- (in OE. grorn sad, begroren terrified, gryre horror) which seems to be an extension of the root *greu-, grū̆-: see grue v.]
1. impers. (it) grises me: I shudder with fear or horror, I tremble, am greatly afraid.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 165 Of swilch mai grisen men. a 1225 Ancr. R. 366 ‘Sore’, cweð he, ure Louerd, ‘me grulleð [MS. T. grises] aȝean mine pine’. a 1225 Juliana 56 Grisen him mahte [v.r. mahen] þat sehe hu hit [þat axtreo] gront in to hwet se hit of rahte. a 1300 Body & Soul 96 in Map's Poems, A weyle sore may me grise. 1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 7875 Hyt was no wundyr þoȝ hym gros. |
2. intr. To shudder or tremble with terror; to be full of horror, greatly afraid; = agrise 1.
| a 1225 [see 1]. a 1300 Cursor M. 7983 To ger þam for him gru and grise Vm-thoght him gern on quatkin wise. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8532 His herte a-geyns hym gros & grew. c 1400 Beryn 2140 Of this petouse compleynt a mannys hert may grise. c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 7222 Þe woman sho began to gryes. c 1460 Towneley Myst. iv. 254 When I look to hym, I gryse. 1513 Douglas æneis i. xii. 21 Albeit my spreit abhorris, and doith grise, Thairon for to ramembir. |
3. trans. To shudder at with terror or abhorrence; to dread, abhor, loathe; = agrise 2.
| 1382 Wyclif Judith xvi. 12 The Persis grisiden hir stedefastnesse, and Medis hir hardynesse. ― Wisdom xii. 3 Tho olde dwelleris of thin holi lond, the which thou grisedist. |
4. To terrify, affright; = agrise 5 a.
| 1501 Douglas Pal. Hon. i. lxxi, Terribill thochtis oft my hart did gryis. 1513 ― æneis vi. ii. 52 Virgyne, na kynd of pane may rise, Vnknaw to me, of new that may me grise. 1556–8 T. Phaer æneid iv. K ij b, He warns me through my dreames, & me w{supt} fearfull gost doth grise. |
▪ III. grise
var. gris Obs.; obs. f. grass, grece.