What is "terrifie"

Usage examples of "terrifie".

Wenman, and William Strachey, and probably composed by Strachey, after speaking of the bountiful capacity of the country, the writer exclaims: "Only let me truly acknowledge there are not one hundred or two of deboisht hands, dropt forth by year after year, with penury and leysure, ill provided for before they come, and worse governed when they are here, men of such distempered bodies and infected minds, whom no examples daily before their eyes, either of goodness or punishment, can deterr from their habituall impieties, or terrifie from a shameful death, that must be the carpenters and workmen in this so glorious a building.

His name was Daunger dreaded ouer all,Who day and night did watch and duely ward,From fearefull cowards, entrance to forstall,And faint-heart-fooles, whom shew of perill hardCould terrifie from Fortunes faire adward:For oftentimes faint hearts at first espiallOf his grim face, were from approaching scard.