† aˈgrise, v. Obs.
Forms: inf. 1 agr{iacu}s-an, 2–4 agris-en, 2–7 agrise, 3–7 agryse, 4–5 agrese, 6 agryce, agryze, aggrise, aggryese, 6–7 agrize, 7 aggrize. pa. tense 1–3 agrás, 3–5 agros, 4 agroos, 5 agrose. pa. pple. 1–4 agrisen, 3–4 agrise, 4–5 agrised, 5 agresyd, 6 agryz'd.
[f. a- prefix 1 intensive + grise, same root as gr{iacu}s horror. Cf. grisly.]
1. intr. To shudder with terror, be full of horror; to tremble, quake, be greatly afraid or moved.
| a 1000 Laws of Cnut (Thorpe I. 374, Bosw.) Ðæt he for helle agrise. c 1230 Ancren Riwle 306 Swuch ȝeor þet heouene & eorðe muwen beoðe grisliche agrisen. c 1320 Seuyn Sages (W.) 886 To gon therinne [i.e. in the forest] ech man agros. c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 3370 Of þe siȝte agrise he gan. c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. 830 And in his herte he sodeynly agroos, And pale he wex. c 1461 Play of Sacr. 902 For that presumcon gretly I agryse. 1534 More Comf. agst. Tribul. iii. Wks. 1557, 1215/2 Their heartes agryce & shrynke in the remembraunce of the payne. 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iii. (1641) 223/1 Already in each nook agrising, Fell, wall-break Famine ill-advising Howls hideously. |
2. trans. To shudder at (with terror or abhorrence); to dread, abhor, loathe.
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. (1868) 31 If þou agrisest hir fals[e] trecherie. 1382 Wyclif Job xix. 17 My wif agriside my breth. 1393 Gower Conf. I. 351 She hadde..after wrought in suche a wise, All the worlde it ought agrise. 1468 Cov. Myst. (1841) 41 Ony worke of synful dede Oure Lord God that xulde agryse. |
3. refl. (obj. orig. indirect—he shuddered to himself.)
| 1205 Layam. 11977 Haȝel and ræin þer aræs{revsc} Þe hit i-seh him agras [1250 agros]. a 1300 K. Horn 867 Horn him gan to agrise, And his blod arise. |
4. impers. (cf. ‘it abhors me, it repented him.’)
| 1205 Layam. 13329 Þer uore me a-griseð. c 1300 Beket 688 Sumdel him agros. c 1460 Lybeaus Disconus 1884 Therfore hym grym agros. 1596 Spenser F.Q. v. x. 28 And powring forth their bloud in brutishe wize, That any yron eyes, to see, it would agrize. |
5. trans. (from impers., by defining the subject.) a. active, To horrify, terrify, affright.
| c 1314 Guy Warw. 49 Nas ther non that him agros. 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys of Seyntys 75 These wordis urban so sore dyde agryse. 1513 Douglas æneis iv. vii. 47 My goist sall be present the to aggrise. 1596 Spenser F.Q. ii. vi. 46 Engrost with mud which did them fowle agrise. 1611 Florio, Legare, to agrize or set ones teeth on edge. 1647 H. More Song of Soul i. i. xxx, Their course the best Astronomer might well aggrize. |
b. pass., To be horrified, terrified, or afraid.
| 1297 R. Glouc. 539 Tho were the porters agrise sore of thulke siȝte. 1387 Trevisa Hidgen Rolls Ser. IV. 353 Þe fader and þe moder were agrised [abhorrerent] for to slee þe childe. c 1430 Lydg. Minor Poems (1840) 141 Hooly Awstyn..was of the caas agrised. 1613 W. Browne Sheph. Pipe i. 501 Of whose sight he full sore was agrysed. |