† horre, v. Obs.
[ad. L. horrēre to stand on end (as hair), to bristle, to be rough; to shake, tremble, shiver, shudder, quake; to shudder at, dread, loathe: cf. abhor v.]
trans. To abhor.
| c 1430 Life St. Kath. (1884) 31 Þay horre not þe foule ymage of eny myschape þyng. Ibid. 47 Had not oure lawe horred þe sect of cristen puple. 1450–1530 Myrr. our Ladye 120 When thou shuldest take vpon the mankynde for the delyueraunce of man; thow horydest not the vyrgyns wombe. |