The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agrise \A*grise"\, v. t.
To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe. [Obs.]
--Wyclif.-
To terrify; to affright. [Obs.]
His manly face that did his foes agrise.
--Spenser.
Agrise \A*grise"\, v. i. [AS. [=a]gr[=i]san to dread; [=a]- (cf.
Goth. us-, Ger. er-, orig. meaning out) + gr[=i]san, for
gr?san (only in comp.), akin to OHG. gr?is?n, G. grausen, to
shudder. See Grisly.]
To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context obsolete intransitive English) To shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified. (10th-16th c.) 2 (context obsolete transitive English) To make tremble, to terrify. (13th-17th c.)
Usage examples of "agrise".
Lordings, I could have told you (quoth this Frere), Had I had leisure for this Sompnour here, After the text of Christ, and Paul, and John, And of our other doctors many a one, Such paines, that your heartes might agrise,* *be horrified Albeit so, that no tongue may devise,* -- *relate Though that I might a thousand winters tell, -- The pains of thilke* cursed house of hell *that But for to keep us from that cursed place Wake we, and pray we Jesus, of his grace, So keep us from the tempter, Satanas.