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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Threat \Threat\ (thr[ecr]t), n. [AS. [thorn]re[a0]t, akin to [be][thorn]re[a2]tan to vex, G. verdriessen, OHG. irdriozan, Icel. [thorn]rj[d3]ta to fail, want, lack, Goth. us[thorn]riutan to vex, to trouble, Russ. trudite to impose a task, irritate, vex, L. trudere to push. Cf. {Abstruse}, {Intrude}, {Obstrude}, {Protrude}.] The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. --Shak. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Threat \Threat\, v. t. & i. [OE. [thorn]reten, AS. [thorn]re[a0]tian. See {Threat}, n.] To threaten. [Obs. or Poetic] --Shak. Of all his threating reck not a mite. --Chaucer. Our dreaded admiral from far they threat. --Dryden. | |
