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▪ I. grisly, a. Now only arch. and literary.|ˈgrɪzlɪ|
Forms: 2 grislic, 2–5 grislich, -lych, (3–4 compar. grisloker, -luker), 3–5 gryslich, -lych, 4–5 griselich(e, gryselich(e, -lyche, -ly, (4 grissiliche, grislik, greselich); 3 Orm. grissliȝ, 3 gresle, 4 greesly, 4–5 gresely(e, gresli, 5 gresly, griss(e)ly(e, 4–6 grysely(e, 4–7 grysly, 5 grysle, gryssly, 6 gryslie, greislie, greizlie, griesely, -lie, gryesly, 5–7 greisly, 6–7 grislie, grizely, 6–9 griesly, 8–9 grizly, (grizzly), 4– grisly.
[Late OE. grislic; ultimately f. gris- wk. root of grise v. + -lic, -ly1; but the history is unknown.
Perh. aphetized from OE. ongrislic, *ongrisenlic (implied in the adv. ongrysenlíce), f. pa. pple. of *ongrísan, synonymous with ágrísan agrise v. Cf. the continental Teut. synonyms MDu. grezelijc (from the weak form of the root), griselijc, mod.Du. grijzelijk (from the str. form); the quantity of the root-vowel in MHG. grisenlich is uncertain.]
1. Causing horror, terror, or extreme fear; horrible or terrible to behold or to hear; causing such feelings as are associated with thoughts of death and ‘the other world’, spectral appearances, and the like. In mod. use tending to a weaker sense: Causing uncanny or unpleasant feelings; of forbidding appearance; grim, ghastly.
a. of visible objects, their qualities, etc.
a1150Passio B. Margaretæ in Grein Bibl. Angels. Prosa (1889) III. 175 Þær inn eode an grislic deofol. c1200Vices & Virtues (1888) 19 Eifulle dieulen, ðe bieð swa laðliche and swo grislich an to lokin. c1200Ormin 3842 Þohh þatt he grissliȝ deofell seo. c1205Lay. 28063 Þer ich isah gripes & grisliche fuȝeles. a1225Ancr. R. 118 Bledinde mon is grislich & atelich ine monnes eihsihðe. c1350Will. Palerne 4935 Ac he haþ sent ȝou to socoure so grissiliche an host. c1386Chaucer Monk's T. 119 He slow the grisly boor. ― Frankl. T. 131 The grisly Rokkes blake. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xxi. 479 May no grysliche gost glyde þer hit shadeweþ. c1450Merlin 15 Ther was none othir women that durste norishe it but the modre, for it was so grysly to syght. 1513Douglas æneis vi. iv. 4 Ane hiddouis hole, deip gapand and grisly. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utopia i. (Arb.) 53 A man of grislie and sterne grauitie. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Nov. 55 Vp grieslie ghostes. 1590― F.Q. i. v. 20 Griesly night, with visage deadly sad. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 220 The griesly and ghastly countenance of approching death. 1629Milton Nativity 209 In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue. 1684Earl of Roscommon Ess. Transl. Verse 157 The Greisly Ferry-man of Hell. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 145 Like their grisly Prince appears his gloomy Race. 1788W. Blane Hunt. Excurs. 15 Our grisly enemy [an elephant] was overpowered by the number of bullets. 1807Wordsw. White Doe i. 244 Look down, and see a griesly sight; A vault where the bodies are buried upright! 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 198 Minos, transformed by the Florentine poet..into a strange and grisly shape. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. xv, There was the old grisly four-post bedstead. 1867Emerson May-Day etc. Wks. (Bohn) III. 457 Hunted by Sorrow's grisly train. 1885Stevenson Dynamiter 132 The grisly shelter of a coffee-shop.
†b. of sounds. Obs.
c1275Serving Christ 28 in O.E. Misc. 91 Þer is gronynge and grure and gryslich gle. a1300Cursor M. 18953 (Gött.) For þat farli sone war þai fus, And ran þaim til þe apostlis hus, All carpand of þat grisli crack. a1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1219 Dido, The thundyr rorede with a gresely steuene. 14..Sir Beues 2733 + 9 (MS. M.) He keste vp a gret yell That was grisselye as a thonder. 1552Lyndesay Monarche 5545 Gretand with mony gryslie grone. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. Epit. A iv b, ætnaes..grieslie thundering. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (1590) 165 b, With Dayly Diligence and Grisly Grones, he wan her affection.
c. of actions, occurrences, conditions; also arch. of threats, imprecations, etc.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 5 Þat loðeliche word and ateliche and grisliche..Ite maledicti in ignem eternum. [a1240Lofsong in Cott. Hom. 209 Mine sunnen þat ateliche beoð and grisliche i þine eih sihðe.] 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 11745 Grisloker weder þan it was ne miȝte anerþe be. 1340Ayenb. 49 Vor asemoche ase þe zenne is more uoul and more grislich, þe more is worþ þe ssrifte. c1375XI Pains of Hell 33 in O.E. Misc. 211 Gret snow, gret yse, gret cold greslé. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 2238 Philomela, So gresely was his dede, That whan that I his foule storye rede, Mynne eyen wexe foule & sore also. c1386― Pard. T. 380 Many a grisly ooth thanne han thay sworn, And Cristes blessed body thay to-rente. 14..Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 240 Godes grisliche dom. 1494Fabyan Chron. I. ccxxxii. (1533) 158 b, Gresely & cruel fyghte. 1583Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 71, I viewd with wundring a grisly monsterus hazard. 1596H. Clapham Briefe Bible i. 58 No maruell, if so greislie a fall, put him from that sacred figuring Seate. 1826Scott Woodst. ii, Grisly oaths suit ill with grey beards. 1850Hawthorne Scarlet L. xii. (1879) 171 The like grisly sense of the humorous again stole in among the solemn phantoms of his thought. 1892Jessopp Stud. Recluse i. (1893) 25 The ground..teeming with the tangible memories of grisly conflict. 1892E. Gosse Secr. Narcisse i. 11 His griesly imagination and adroit hand as a modeller.
2. Ugly. dial.
[a1300Cursor M. 23620 Þir sal be fair and dughti bath, Þai sal be grisli and lath.] 1674–91Ray N.C. Words 32 Grisly, ugly: from Grize, Swine. 1684Yorkesh. Dial. 216 in Specim. Eng. Dial. 159, I wad this grisely Cat was hang'd, for me. 1684J. Lacy Sir H. Buffoon ii. iii. Dram. Wks. (1875) 240 Ah, thou's an ill-favoured grizely-like fellow, that is sa. 1788W. Marshall Yorksh. II. 333 Grizely..ugly in the extreme.
†3. Full of fear, inspired by fear. Also qualifying fear, dread. Obs.
c1320R. Brunne Medit. 101 Eche loked on ouþer with grysly ye, And seyd, ‘lorde wheþer hyt be y?’ c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋103 Grisly drede that euere shal laste. c1400St. Jeremie's 15 Tokens (E.E.T.S.) 33 Allas! hou schull we þan ouercome þilk griselich fere, Whan vche seint schal aferde be oure lord crist to see þere? 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 23 Which made the Males leap out of their Cabins with the same grisly Look as if going to give up their last Accounts.
▪ II. ˈgrisly, adv. Obs. exc. arch.
[f. as prec. + -ly2. Cf. MDu. griselike, MLG. grisliken.]
Horribly, terribly; grimly; so as to inspire terror.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 61 Grisliche he us mid orde pilted. a1225Juliana 69 Te balefule beast..fen[g] on to..grist⁓beatien grisliche up o þis meoke meiden. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 574 His ax..so grisliche he ssoc & vaste, Þat þe king kwakede & is men. a1300Cursor M. 16182 (Cott.), I hope þat þai sal bath grisly bi-for him quake. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 81 Satyri..grisliche and wonderliche i-schape. c1394P.P. Crede 585 Swiche a gome godes wordes grysliche gloseþ. c1400Ywaine & Gaw. 3843 The thoner grisely gan out-brest. c1400Melayne 1252 Grisely gronande. 1529More Dyal. i. 20 a/2 She..was there..in face eyene loke & countenaunce so grysely chaunged..yt yt was a terryble syght to behold. 1563Becon Reliques of Rome 245 There is nothing in al this world yt a Christen man or woman ought so griselich to dread, as for to falle into sinne. 1638–48G. Daniel Eclog. ii. 1 The North lookes grisly blacke. 1663Bullokar, Grisly, abominably, gastly, fearfully. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. viii. 1714 Læsa, gashed griesly, tam enormiter.
▪ III. grisly
obs. form of gristly, grizzly a. and n.1 |