aggressor

[In Fr. agre eur; fr. Lat. aggre or.] The person who takes the first step in a quarrel; one who commences hostilities; an a ailant. "Fatal to all, but to th' aggre or first." Pope : Homer's Ody ey, bk. xxi., 324. they had recourse to the more solid arguments of sticks and stones; the aggre ors were punished by the emperor."- Gibbon : Decline and Fall, ch. xlvi. IMG:content-0274.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The act of grieving. 2. The state of being grieved. "To the aggrievance of good subjects and to the encouragement of the wicked."-stun i hurst: Hist. Ireland, p. 172. 3. Anything which causes grief, annoyance, or hardship; a grievance. "Now briefly without circumstance Deliver those a grievances , which lately Your importunity po e t our counsel Were fit for audience. Beaum. & Flet. Fair Maid of the Inn, iii. L 1 Now superseded by GRIEVANCE. ag-grieve, *a-grēve, vt . & i. [O. Fr. agrever, from Lat. ad = to, and gravari , from gravis = heavy.] [AGGRAVATE, GRIEVE.] A. Transitive : 1. Gen.: To cause one grief, annoyance, or pain. "Those pains that afflict the body are afflictive just so long as they actually po e the part which they aggrieve, but their influence lasts no longer than their presence." South : Sermons, vol. viii., ser. 1. 2. To perpetrate injustice against one, or do anything fitted to make him grieve or complain. "Sir, moreouere be not gredy, gyftes to grype, Rather thou shalt yeue hem, that fele hem agreved ." Crowned King (ed. Skeat), 125, 126. "It was then resolved, in opposition to the plainest principles of justice, that no petition from any person who might think himself aggrieved by this bill should ever be received."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xxv. B. In trans. To be hostile. "The dredful figures gan appere to me, And great gods eke agrered with our town." Surrey: Virgil, il,