agrise

agrise

See also: agrisé

English

Etymology

Old English āgrīsan. Compare and see English grisly.

Verb

agrise (third-person singular simple present agrises, present participle agrising, simple past and past participle agrised)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified. [10th-16th c.]
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Man of Law's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:

     Þe kinges herte of pitee gan agryse, / Whan he sauȝ so benigne a creature.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:

     And powring forth their bloud in brutishe wize, / That any yron eyes to see it would agrize.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To make tremble, to terrify. [13th-17th c.]

Anagrams

• Argies, Gaiers, Gaiser, aegirs, aigers, sagier

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Spanish

Verb

agrise

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of agrisar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of agrisar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of agrisar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of agrisar.