† Frighter

Obs. [f. FRIGHT v. + -ER¹.] One who or that which causes fright or scares away. Fever-frighter: = FEBRIFUGE.

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c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XIII. 278.

	And Terror, his beloved son, that without terror fights,
	And is of such strength that in war the frighter he affrights.

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1683. Salmon, Doron Med., II. 586. This is the Fever frighter of Riverius; but it corresponds not in all its parts with his Description, and the Nature of a true Febrifuge. Ibid. (1693), Bate’s Pharm. (1713), 277/2. ’Tis a famous Ague Frighter, seldom or never failing the Cure at some few Doses taking.

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