Agnises vs Agrises - What's the difference?
agnises | agrises |
(agnise)
* 1840 , Joseph Bingham, Richard Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church :
(agrise)
(obsolete) To shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified.
*c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), ‘The Man of Law's Tale’, Canterbury Tales :
:Þe kinges herte of pitee gan agryse , / Whan he sau? 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 .
(obsolete) To make tremble, to terrify.