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Frightful. [Obs.] Harvey.

make, to cause, used to form verbs from nouns and adjectives; as in strengthen, quicken, frighten. This must not be confused with -en corresponding in Old English to the AS. infinitive ending -an.

A figure o Must I give way and room to your rash choler Shall I be frighted when a madman stares Shak.

t of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubæa and Bæotia. Hence, a flux and reflux. Burke.

Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected. Fear not, neither be faint-hearted. Is. vii. 4. -- Faint"*heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Faint"*heart`ed*ness, n.

words, promises, etc. When fair words and good counsel will not prevail on us, we must be frighted into our duty. L' Estrange.

To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear. z2 fera their people from doing evil. Robynsin (More's utopia). Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs. Shak.

Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power. Bp. Warburton.

Frightful; causing fear [Scotch] "This fearsome wind." Sir W. Scott

d Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis. Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. As half amazed, half frighted all his flock. Tennyson.

r. H. More. For anything that legally appears to the contrary, it may be a contrivance to fright us. Swift.

To frighten; to terrify; to alarm. I. Taylor. What frays ye, that were wont to comfort me affrayed Spenser.

To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley. To funk out, to back out in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.] To funk right out o' political strife. Lowell (Biglow Papers).

Worried; flurried; frightened. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t. [Obs.] Shak.

To frighten; to worry. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] T. Brown.

Full of gashes; hideous; frightful. [Obs.] "A gashful, horrid, ugly shape." Gayton.

To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast. [Obs.] Chaucer. Shak.

To strike aghast; to affright. [Obs.] Ghasted by the noise I made. Full suddenly he fled. Shak.