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terrificare

1 terrificare [CL], to terrify, alarm, fill with fear. V. et. terrefacere. virgam ‥ manu gerebat, tanquam ille qui in epistolis transgressores ~at Gosc. Transl. Mild. 21; tum comites Deum precepisse referunt ut ante demonum visione ~arer W. Malm. GR III 268; territus componitur ‥ ~o, -as Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 583; to flay, collidere, terrere ‥ territare, ~are, terrifacere, timorem inferre CathA.
2 terrificare [CL terra+-ficare], to turn into dry land (in quot. by reclaiming from the sea). 1574 maneria, terras ‥ preantea mare cooperta et modo per opera Dei vel aliter inclus' et non ~ata vel recuperata Pat 1113 m. 9.

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