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▪ I. torve, a. rare.|tɔːv|
[ad. L. torv-us grim, frowning: cf. obs. F. torve (Cotgr.), Sp., Pg., It. torvo.]
Stern in aspect; grim, fierce-looking.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 72 [They] become thereby dim-sighted, and of a torve or crooked aspect. a1661Fuller Worthies, Linc. (1662) ii. 153 He [the devil] is supposed to have overlook'd this Church..with a torve and tetrick countenance, as maligning mens costly devotion. 1862J. Brown Horæ Subs. Ser. iv. Our Dogs 144 Toby made straight at him with a roar too, and an eye more torve than Scrymgeour's. 1894Blackmore Perlycross 405 A man,..torve of aspect.
So ˈtorvid (also 7 erron. -ed) [ad. late L. torvidus], ˈtorvous adjs., in same sense; ˈtorvity [ad. L. torvitās], grimness, fierceness of aspect.
a1639Webster Appius & Virg. v. iii, But yesterday his breath Aw'd Rome, and his least *torved frown was death. 1656Blount Glossogr., Torvid, cruel and spightful in looks, stern, grim, sowre, unpleasant. 1706E. Ward Hud. Rediv. I. xii. 19 Whose torvid Aspect made him show so Like some revengeful Furioso. 1866J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Met. iv. 110 With torvid brow Saturnia gazed upon Ixion.
1620Feltham Resolves lxxxix. 290 To shew us the inticing spots of this Panther, concealing the *torvitie of her countenance. 1787Minor iv. i. 204 This..increased my governor's natural torvity. 1825W. Tennant in Conolly Mem. iii. (1861) 75 Terrible John, with his countenance of Sabine torvity.
1694R. Burthogge Reason & Nat. Spir. 162 Some Ludicrous, some *Torvous. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. iv. xiv. 242 It is natural for many Quadrupeds, Birds and Serpents..to put on a torvous angry Aspect, when in Danger. 1833Palmerston Let. 7 May, in Bulwer Life II. x. 160 Sefton looks torvous when I meet him, that I have not appointed Molyneux.
▪ II. † torve, v. Obs.
[OE. torfian to throw, cast.]
trans. To throw, cast.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Mark xii. 41 Ða sæt se hælend..& ᵹeseah hu þæt folc hyra feoh torfude on þone toll-sceamul, & maneᵹa weliᵹe torfudon fela. c1122O.E. Chron. an. 1083, Þa Frencisce men bræcen þone chor & torfedon to wærd þam weofode þær ða munecas wæron. c1175To-toruion [see to-2 1]. c1205Lay. 16703 Samuel þ̶ sweord an-hof..& al to-swadde þene king..& þa stucchen tarueden [c 1275 toruede] Wide ȝeond þa straten. a1250Owl & Night. 1119 Stones hi doþ in heore slytte & þe to-torueþ. |