Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Frightened.
- In heraldry, same as
forcené .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fright .
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Examples
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From the partial representations of narrow-minded bigots, who paint the Deity from their own gloomy conceptions, the young are too often frighted from the paths of virtue; despairing of ideal perfections, they give up all virtue as unattainable, and start aside from the road which they falsely suppose strewed with thorns.
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This was an extraordinary case, and I am therefore the more particular in it, because I came so much to the knowledge of it; but there were innumerable such-like cases, and it was seldom that the weekly bill came in but there were two or three put in, 'frighted'; that is, that may well be called frighted to death.
A Journal Of The Plague Year Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1935
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This was an extraordinary case, and I am therefore the more particular in it, because I came so much to the knowledge of it; but there were innumerable such-like cases, and it was seldom that the weekly bill came in but there were two or three put in, 'frighted'; that is, that may well be called frighted to death.
A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London Daniel Defoe 1696
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I was therefore in danger of falling into the same predicament as Murtagh, becoming "frighted" from having nothing to do!
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842
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I was therefore in danger of falling into the same predicament as Murtagh, becoming 'frighted' from having nothing to do!
Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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I was therefore in danger of falling into the same predicament as Murtagh, becoming "frighted" from having nothing to do!
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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I was therefore in danger of falling into the same predicament as Murtagh, becoming "frighted" from having nothing to do!
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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Greg, Could you post a list of the Democrat-cowards who were frighted off by the Decider's "you are helping terrorists" crap and voted for that legislation so that they could join the Iraqi legislature on vacation?
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No jury is going to believe a person following in a funeral procession expected anyone to be frighted.
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When the Husband came, she receiv'd him with a frighted disconsolate
laiane commented on the word frighted
Archaic version of "frightened." I found it in Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year.
August 18, 2009