awe (1)

t. [From awe, s. (q.v.). In Icel. aegia =to strike with fear; Dan. ave to keep in awe, to discipline, to chastise, to correct; Goth. agan, ogan to fear.] To inspire with veneration or with simple dread. "His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the bystanders."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. iv. "The rods and axes of princes, and their deputies, may awe many into obedience; but the fame of their goodne , Justice, and other virtues, will work on more."-Atterbury. * âwe (2), * âw ( 0. Eng. ), awe ( Scotch ), v.t. & auxil. [A.S. agan to po e .] [OWE, OUGHT.] A. Trans.: To owe. (O. Eng . & Scotch .) "Weel, sir, your house awes them this siller."- Scott : Rob Roy , ch. xxii. B. Auxiliary : Ought. (O. Eng .) "It is nedfull to al men, in the tyme of that dysegh, to think and to know that his syn is aw to have mar pwnyscioume than he may tholl"-The Craft of Deyng (ed. Lumby), 116.