affrightful ( gh mute)

[AFFRIGHT.] Fitted to inspire great dread; frightful. "There is an absence of all that is destructive or affrightful to human nature."- Decay of Piety. Now superseded by FRIGHTFUL (q.v.). *af-fright-ful-lý ( gh mute), adv . [AFFRIGHTFUL.] In a frightful manner; frightfully. Now superseded by FRIGHTFULLY (q.v.). af-fright-ing ( gh mute), pr. par. [AF FRIGHT.] *af-fright-měnt ( gh mute), s. [AFFRIGHT.] The state of being frightened; fright, dread. Pa ionate words, or blows from the tutor, fill the child's mind with terrour and affrightment ; which immediately takes it wholly up, and leaves no room for other impre ions."-Locke: On Education. af-fro it-lie, adv. [Fr. effroyer = to frighten. ( Scotch.) Affrightedly. ( Rudd.) af-front, *a-frount', vt. & i. [O. Fr. a fronter; Fr. affronter = (1) to face, (2) to affront; Sp. afrontar = to confront Port. affrontar, afrontar; Ital. affront are to engage in front, to attack: all from Lat. ad to, and frons , gen it. front is the forehead, the front.] [FRONT.] A. Transitive : E ential meaning: To meet face to face, to confront. Trench considers affront to have originally meant to strike on the face. Wedgwood and many others think it was to meet face to face. 1. To do so without its being implied that such an encounter is a hostile one. "For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither; That he, as 'twere by accident, may here Afront Ophelia."-Shakesp. Hamlet, iii. 1. 2. To do so with the implied meaning that the encounter is hostile. ( a ) Of individuals : "He highly leapt out of his place of rest, And rushing forth into the empty field, Against Cambello fiercely him addrest, Who him a fronting soone to fight was ready prest." Spenser: F. Q., IV. iii. 22. 111 (b) of armies: To confront in a hostile manner, to engage in a battle with. "Skilfull captaines, in arraunging their battailes, place first in the vant guard thicke and strong squa drons to affront the enemie."-Holland: Ammianus Mar cell in us, b. xiv. (c) Fig.: Of anything wholly immaterial: Το confront, to defy. "I have affronted death."-Byron: Manfred, ii. 2 Yea, often placed Within his sanctuary itself their shrines, Abominations; and with cursed things His holy rites and solemn feasts prof an'd, And with their darkne durst affront his light." Milton: P. L., Dk. L 3. To insult one to the face by language or demeanour. that a man who was known not to have signed ran considerable risk of being publicly af fronted."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xxi. In this sense the omnipresent God may be the object of affront. "The air of insolence affronts your God, You need his pardon and provoke his rod." Cowper: Conversation, 4. Colloquially. In a looser sense: To slight one, either in his presence or in his absence. that his Majesty would never have been so gro ly affronted abroad if he had not first been affronted at home."- Macaulay Hist . Eng . , ch. xxv. B. Intransitive : To offer an insult to. In the example there is probably an ellipsis to be supplied, in which case the verb would become transitive. "Your preparation can affront no le Than what you hear of; come more, for more you're ready."-Shakesp.: Cymbeline, iv. 3. af-front', s. [From the verb. In Fr. affront; Sp. cfrenta ; Port. affront a Ital. affronto.] *1. An encounter face to face. (a) Not hostile . "Only, sir, this I must caution you of, in your affront or salute, never to move your hat."-Green: Tu Quoque (b) Hostile : An attack. "But he met with no other affront from Apollvon quite through this valley."-Bunyan: Pilgrim's Pro gre , pt. 1. On affront: Face to face. ( MS . Ash mole.) ( Hall i well .) +2. Chiefly Scotch : The disgrace or shame resulting from defeat. "Antonius attacked the pirates of Crete, and by his too great presumption was defeated; upon the sense of which affront he died with grief."-Arbuthnot: Coins. 3. Disrespect offered to the face contumacious treatment by word or demeanour; an insult, or something which, falling short of insult, is still fitted to stir up resentment. "He had been apprehensive that the common people, who during his absence had given so many proofs of their aversion to Popery, would offer him some affront."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. 1. In this sense the word may be used of God or his worship. oft have they violated The temple, oft the law, with foul affronts , Abominations rather, as did once Antiochus." -Milton: P. R. , bk. iii, 4. Colloquially : Slight disrespect offered to one, either in his presence or in his absence. IMG:content-0247.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Standing at gaze. af-front-ěd, pa . par . & a. [AFFRONT, v .] who shows favour to the few inen of letters who deserve it inflicts on the many the miseries of disappointed hope, of affronted pride, of jealousy cruel as the grave."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng . , ch. xxiv. *af-front-ed-ly, adv . [AFFRONTED.] Insultingly. "His majesty hath observed that ever since his coming to the crown the popular sort of lawyers have been the men that most affron edly in all Parliaments have trodden upon his prerogative."- Bacon . * af-front-ed-ne , s. [Eng. affronted.] "Great impudence." ( Skinner.) af-front-er, &. [AFFRONT.] One who affronts. af-front-ing, pr. par. [AFFRONT.] af-front-ing-ly, adv. [AFFRONTING.] In a manner calculated to affront. expect, Xenophon, exist. -ing. 112