affrayer

It was then clear that it was not another form of ‘afeared’, but wholly separate from it, the participle of the verb ‘to affray’, ‘affrayer’, or, as it is now written, ‘effrayer’ {247}.

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

C other other purpofe •, for he cannot juftify the committing an affrayer to gaol till he fhall be punifhed for his offence: and it is faid, that he ought not to. lay hands on thofe, who barely contend with hot words, without any threats of perfonal hurt, and that all which he can do in fuch cafe, is to command them under pain of imprisonment to avoid fighting, i Hawk.

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