Word Meanings - APPALLMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Depression occasioned by terror; dismay. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• OCCASIONALISM
  The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• TERRORIZE
  To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.
• DISMAY
  magan to be strong or able; akin to E. may. In English the pref. es- 1. To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify. Be not afraid,
• OCCASIONABLE
  Capable of being occasioned or caused. Barrow.
• TERRORISM
  The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. Jefferson.
• DEPRESSION
  The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon. (more info) 1. The act of depressing. 2. The state of being depressed; a sinking. 3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness
• OCCASIONALLY
  In an occasional manner; on occasion; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly. Stewart. The one, Wolsey, directly his subject by birth; the other, his subject occasionally by his preferment. Fuller.
• OCCASIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to an occasion or to occasions; occuring at times, but not constant, regular, or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits; casual; incidental; as, occasional remarks, or efforts. The... occasional writing
• DISMAYEDNESS
  A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness.
• DISMAYFUL
  Terrifying. Spenser.
• OCCASIONER
  One who, or that which, occasions, causes, or produces. Bp. Sanderson.
• OCCASIONALITY
  Quality or state of being occasional; occasional occurrence.
• OCCASION
  to fall down; ob + cadere to fall. See Chance, and cf. 1. A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident. The unlooked-for incidents of family history, and its hidden excitements, and
• TERROR
  tersere; akin to Gr. tras to tremble, to be afraid, Russ. triasti to 1. Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright. Terror seized the rebel host. Milton. 2. That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear.
• OCCASIONATE
  To occasion. The lowest may occasionate much ill. Dr. H. More.
• TERRORIST
  One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. Burke.
• SEMIOCCASIONALLY
  Once in a while; on rare occasions.
• NIGHT TERRORS
  A sudden awkening associated with a sensation of terror, occurring in children, esp. those of unstable nervous constitution.