单词 | terrifier |
释义 | terrifiern. A person who or thing which provokes terror; an alarming or intimidating person or thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies terrora1500 terrifier1586 terrible1606 terrification1622 fright1634 gastering1642 Dracula1938 1586 W. Herbert Let. True Christian Catholike 3 That toureformer and terrifier Nimrhod. 1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. Suppl. 548 In stead of a terrifier, he hath brought him about now, to be a praiser. 1653 J. Taylor Sence upon Nonsence 13 Sole Transplanter, Terrifier, Controler, and Corrector of Beggers and Vagabonds. 1738 Three Lett. Gin Act 9 The Terrifier and Tormenter of honest and virtuous Men. 1792 W. Owen Eleg. Llywarc Hen 3 Before Geraint, the terrifier of the foe, I saw the steeds hagged with mutual toil from battle. 1847 G. Lippard Quaker City II. iii. iii. 221/2 Our Gospel is a patent improved Gospel; a terrifier; a scorcher; a real Locomotive-off-the-track sort of a Gospel! 1870 R. C. Jebb Sophocles' Electra (ed. 2) 72/1 The terrifier of horses. 1930 S. M. Vauclain & E. C. May Steaming up! xxiii. 266 The first dress suit was a terrifier. 1974 K. Clark Another Part of Wood 125 She was a well-known terrifier but, after the first formal exchanges, I did not find her alarming at all. 2007 J. A. Rush Twelve Gates iii. 188 What is Osiris..saying to the lion-headed deity called Senset-Khu or Terrifier of Spirits? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1586 |
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