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n. Abhorrence. [ Obs. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. abhorens, -rentis, p. pr. of abhorrere. ] 1. Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. [ 1913 Webster ]

The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

The arts of pleasure in despotic courts
I spurn abhorrent. Clover. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to. “Injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to our stricter principles.” Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Detestable. “Pride, abhorrent as it is.” I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With abhorrence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who abhors. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Detestable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Detestation. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Object of abhorrence. Isa. lxvi. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. horrendus. ] Fearful; frightful. [ Obs. ] I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. horrens, p. pr. of horrere to bristle. See Horror. ] Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rough and horrent with figures in strong relief. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

With bright emblazonry and horrent arms. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. horrible, orrible, OF. horrible, orrible, F. horrible, fr. L. horribilis, fr. horrere. See Horror. ] Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dungeon horrible on all sides round. Milton.

Syn. -- Dreadful; frightful; fearful; terrible; awful; terrific; shocking; hideous; horrid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The horribleness of the mischief. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner to excite horror; dreadfully; terribly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. horridus. See Horror, and cf. Ordure. ] 1. Rough; rugged; bristling. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not in the legions
Of horrid hell. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The horrid things they say. Pope.

Syn. -- Frightful; hideous; alarming; shocking; dreadful; awful; terrific; horrible; abominable. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a horrid manner. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being horrid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. horrifieus; horrere to be horrible + -ficare (in comp.) to make: cf. F. horrifique. See Horror, -fy. ] Causing horror; frightful. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which causes horror. [ R. ] Miss Edgeworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Horrified p. pr. & vb. n. Horrifying ] [ L. horrificare. See Horrific. ] To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as, the sight horrified the beholders. E. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. horripilatio, fr. horripilare to bristle; horrere to bristle + pilus the hair: cf. F. horripilation. ] (Med.) A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Horrisonous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. horrisonus; horrere to be horrible + sonus a sound. ] Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formerly written horrour. ] [ L. horror, fr. horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread, to be dreadful or terrible; cf. Skr. h&unr_;sh to bristle. ] 1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking. [ 1913 Webster ]

How could this, in the sight of heaven, without horrors of conscience be uttered? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The horrors, delirium tremens. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Struck with horror; horrified. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blank and horror-stricken faces. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Horror-stricken; horrified. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Mohr. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Abhorrence of one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]