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horripilation|hɒrɪpɪˈleɪʃən|
[ad. late L. horripilātio (Vulgate), n. of action f. horripilāre, f. stem of horrēre to bristle (see horre v.) + pilus hair.]
Erection of the hairs on the skin by contraction of the cutaneous muscles (caused by cold, fear or other emotion, or nervous affection), producing the condition known as ‘goose-flesh’; ‘creeping of the flesh’.
1656Blount Glossogr., Horripilation, the standing up of the hair for fear..a sudden quaking, shuddering or shivering. 1659R. Gell Ess. Amendm. Transl. Bible 591 That formidable doctrine which causeth horripilation, and makes the hair stand on end through fear. 1776Cullen 1st Lines Pract. Phys. i. i. Wks. 1827 I. 480 The horripilatio is confined to diseases from internal causes. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 617 When the shivering or horripilation produced by the cold-water has not been followed by a stimulant effect. 1896Times 18 Dec. 6/3, I..never in my life felt more keenly that uncomfortable sense..known as ‘horripilation’. 1898J. Hutchinson in Archives Surg. IX. No. 34. 133 Spasmodic contraction of the muscular coats of the blood vessels is probably the essential cause of true shivering, whilst spasm of the arrectores pili is that of horripilation.
So hoˈrripilant a., causing horripilation; hoˈrripilate v. intr., to undergo horripilation; trans. to cause horripilation in, make (the flesh) to creep.
1623Cockeram, Horripilate, to grow rough with hair. 1835–40J. M. Wilson Tales Borders (1851) XX. 238 Rendered the sight appalling and horripilant. 1887L. Hearn Some Chinese Ghosts vi. 149 Flesh made to creep by the utterance of such words as poets utter—flesh moved by an Idea, flesh horripilated by a Thought! |