Agrise

Origin

Old English āgrīsan.

Full definition of agrise

Verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified. 10th-16th c.
• c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Man of Law's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:
2. Þe kinges herte of pitee gan agryse,
   Whan he sauȝ so benigne a creature.
• 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:And powring forth their bloud in brutishe wize,
  That any yron eyes to see it would agrize.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To make tremble, to terrify. 13th-17th c.

Anagrams

• sagier