English Dictionary: terror-struck | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Terrorism \Ter"ror*ism\, n. [Cf. F. terrorisme.] The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. --Jefferson. | |
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Terrorist \Ter"ror*ist\, n. [F. terroriste.] One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. --Burke. | |
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Terrorize \Ter"ror*ize\, v. t. [Cf. F. terroriser.] To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. --J. A. Symonds. | |
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Horror \Hor"ror\, 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[?]sh to bristle.] 1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. [Archaic] Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. --Chapman. 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. 3. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking. How could this, in the sight of heaven, without horrors of conscience be uttered? --Milton. 4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. Breathes a browner horror on the woods. --Pope. {The horrors}, delirium tremens. [Colloq.] | |
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Triarchy \Tri"ar*chy\, n.; pl. {Triarchies}. [Gr. [?]; [?] (see {Tri-}) + [?] to rule.] Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers. --Holland. | |
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Triarchy \Tri"ar*chy\, n.; pl. {Triarchies}. [Gr. [?]; [?] (see {Tri-}) + [?] to rule.] Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers. --Holland. | |
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Trirectangular \Tri`rec*tan"gu*lar\, a. [Pref. tri- + rectangular.] (Spherical Trig.) Having three right angles. See {Triquadrantal}. | |
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d8Tuy8are \[d8]Tu`y[8a]re"\, n. [F.; akin to tuyau a pipe; of Teutonic origin. Cf. {Tweer}, {Tewel}.] A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge. [Corruptly written also {tweer}, and {twier}.] {Tuy[8a]re arch}, the embrasure, in the wall of a blast furnace through which the tuy[8a]re enters. |