▪ I. adrad, ppl. a.1 Obs. or arch.
(əˈdræd)
Forms: 3 adræd, 3–6 adred, adrad(de, 5 adrade, adrede, 5–6 adredde, 6 adread; revived in 9 as adrad, (adread).
[Probably weakened form of of-drad, pa. pple. of of-drede to frighten, terrify. Of-drad and a-drad are used synonymously from 1200 to 1300, about which date the former disappears.]
Frightened, greatly afraid, put in dread. Const. gen. or of; dat. inf.; subord. clause; W. Morris has at.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 31 Þe engel quað to hem ne be ȝe naht ofdredde. 1205 Layamon 7575 His men weoren of⁓dredde [1250 a-dradde]. Ibid. 10952 Adræd he wes swiðe [1250 adred]. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xix. 21 For alle derke deuelles · aren adradde to heren it. c 1384 Chaucer H. Fame 928 Loke thou ne be Adrad of hem. a 1420 Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1275, I am adredde God is not in this place. c 1440 Generydes 3867 He was full sore adrede of his comyng. c 1440 Morte Arthur (1819) 47 The quene of dethe was sore A drade. 1549 Chaloner tr. Erasm. Moriæ Enc. R iv b, He nothyng helde hymself adradde of drunken Marke Anthony. 1580 Sidney Arcadia (1622) 126 Thinking to make all men adread. 1600 Tourneur Metamorph. liv. 377 (1878) 208 The beast gan looke as one that were adrad. 1855 Singleton Virgil I. 390 Her sister heard it breathless, and adread. 1870 Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 147 Thereat adrad He turned him round. Ibid. I. i. 19, I was the less adrad Of what might come. |
▪ II. † aˈdrad, ppl. a.2
dreaded. See adread v.1