exhorresco

exhorresco, rŭi, 3, v. inch. n. and a. [exhorreo].

I.

Neutr., to tremble or shudder exceedingly, to be terrified (class.): non possum non exhorrescere, si quid intra cutem subest vulneris, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 3:

in quo igitur homines exhorrescunt?

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 53:

metu,

id. Fin. 1, 13, 43:

oraque buxo Pallidiora gerens exhorruit aequoris instar,

Ov. M. 4, 135:

omnis spiris exhorruit arbor,

Val. Fl. 7, 527.—

II.

Act., to tremble or shudder at any thing, to be terrified at, to dread ( poet. ):

vultus amicos,

Verg. A. 7, 265:

furores,

Sil. 3, 146:

verbere candentes armos,

Val. Fl. 4, 380; Vulg. Job, 19, 17.