ppl. a. [f. FRIGHT v. + -ED1.] Affected with fright, scared.
1647. Trapp, Mellif. Theolog., in Comm. Epist., 727. As a frighted worme wriggles into its hole.
1650. W. Brough, Sacr. Princ. (1659), 480. [The Sinner] must be [penitent] from the Bottom of the Heart, not from a Frighted Phansie, or Quavering Lip.
1700. Dennis, Iphigenia, 49.
| And frighted Wolves, with dreadful Howl, | |
| Her dire Approach declare. |
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), II. x. 61. The man must think he has a frighted fool to deal with.
1839. Longf., Hesperus, vii. She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed.
1870. Bryant, Iliad, II. XXII. 311.
| Thus were they driven within the city walls | |
| Like frighted fawns. |
¶ b. Of a region or space: Pervaded with fear.
Milton’s frighted deep is echoed by later writers.
1667. Milton, P. L., II. 993.
| Such a numerous host | |
| Fled not in silence through the frighted deep. |
1715–20. Pope, Iliad, XIV. 445.
| His brandish’d Faulchion flames before their Eyes, | |
| Like Light’ning flashing thro’ the frighted Skies. |
a. 1780. Blake, Tiriel, vii. 1. She, howling, led him over mountains and through frighted vales.
1808. J. Barlow, The Columbiad, II. 207.
| Ere Rome’s first Eagle clave the frighted air, | |
| Ere Sparta form’d her deathlike sons of war, | |
| Ere Tyre and Ilion saw their towers arise, | |
| Or Memphian pyramids usurp’d the skies, | |
| These tribes have forester’d the fruitful zone, | |
| Their seats unsettled, and their name unknown. |
Hence Frightedly adv., in a frighted manner.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), IV. lix. 395. In an accent rather frightedly and hoarsely inward than shrilly clamorous, she cried out, Fire! fire!.
