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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive.</def>

<blockquote>Not in the legions Of <b>horrid</b> hell. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>horrid</b> things they say. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Frightful; hideous; alarming; shocking; dreadful; awful; terrific; horrible; abominable.</syn>

<h1>Horridly</h1> <Xpage=706>

<hw>Hor"rid*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a horrid manner.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Horridness</h1> <Xpage=706>

<hw>Hor"rid*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being horrid.</def>

<h1>Horrific</h1> <Xpage=706>

<hw>Hor*rif"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>horrifieus</ets>; <ets>horrere</ets> to be horrible + <ets>-ficare</ets> (in comp.) to make: cf. F. <ets>horrifique</ets>. See <er>Horror</er>, <er>-fy</er>.]</ety> <def>Causing horror; frightful.</def>

<blockquote>Let . . . nothing ghastly or <b>horrific</b> be supposed. <i>I. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Horrification</h1> <Xpage=706>

<hw>Hor`ri*fi*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>That which causes horror.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Miss Edgeworth.</i>

<h1>Horrify</h1> <Xpage=706>

<hw>Hor"ri*fy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Horrified</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Horrifying</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>horrificare</ets>. See <er>Horrific</er>.]</ety> <def>To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; <as>as, the sight <ex>horrified</ex> the beholders</as>.</def>

<i>E. Irving.</i>

<h1>Horripilation</h1> <Xpage=706>

<hw>Hor*rip`i*la"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>horripilatio</ets>, fr. <ets>horripilare</ets> to bristle; <ets>horrere</ets> to bristle + <ets>pilus</ets> the hair: cf. F. <ets>horripilation</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc.</def>

<h1>Horrisonant</h1> <Xpage=706>

<hw>Hor*ris"o*nant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Horrisonous.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Horrisonous</h1> <Xpage=706>

<hw>Hor*ris"o*nous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>horrisonus</ets>; <ets>horrere</ets> to be horrible + <ets>sonus</ets> a sound.]</ety> <def>Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bailey.</i>

<h1>Horror</h1> <Xpage=706>

<hw>Hor"ror</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Formerly written <ets>horrour</ets>.]</ety> <ety>[L. <ets>horror</ets>, fr. <ets>horrere</ets> to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread, to be dreadful or terrible; cf. Skr. <ets>h<?/sh</ets> to bristle.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>Such fresh <b>horror</b> as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. <i>Chapman.</i></blockquote>