perhorresco

pĕr-horresco, rui, 3, v. inch. n. and a.

I.

Neutr., to tremble or shudder greatly (class.):

toto corpore perhorresco,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 13, 41:

recordatione consulatūs vestri,

id. Pis. 20, 45:

clamore perhorruit Aetne,

trembled, shook, Ov. M. 13, 877:

latumque perhorruit aequor (ventorum jactatibus),

id. ib. 6, 704.—

II.

Act., to shudder greatly at, to have a great horror of any thing (class.):

hanc tantam religionem non perhorrescis?

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 35, § 78:

vexationem virginum Vestalium perhorresco,

id. Cat. 4, 6:

Bosporum,

Hor. C. 2, 13, 15.