agryse
Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]agryse
- To shudder with horror
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Man of Lawes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- Þe kinges herte of pitee gan agryse, / Whan he sauȝ so benigne a creature.
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