ppl. a. arch. [f. prec. + -ED.] Affrighted, frightened.
1649. Cleveland, Elegie, 5, Wks. 1687, 198.
| Does his Royal Blood, | |
| Which th’Earth late drunk in so profuse a flood | |
| Not shoot through her affrightned Womb and make, | |
| All her convulsed Arteries to shake…? |
1728. Morgan, Hist. Algiers, I. iv. 87. The Disorder into which their affrightened Horses had put them.
1809. Crabbe, Tales, 53. Th’ affrighten’d Man a due attention paid.
