Those enormous terrors of the Nile.
Prior.
Rulers are not a terror to good works.
Rom. xiii. 3.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.
Shak.
Terror is used in the formation of compounds which are generally
self-explaining: as, terror-fraught, terror-giving, terror-smitten,
terror-stricken, terror-struck, and the like.
King of terrors, death. Job xviii. 14. — Reign of Terror. (F. Hist.)
See in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Syn. — Alarm; fright; consternation; dread; dismay. See Alarm.
Ter"ror*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. terrorisme.] The act of terrorizing, or
state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or
intimidation. Jefferson.
Ter"ror*ist, n. [F. terroriste.] One who governs by terrorism or
intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary
tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. Burke.
Ter"ror*ize (?), v. t. [Cf. F. terroriser.] To impress with terror; to
coerce by intimidation.
Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by
ecclesiastical authority.
J. A. Symonds.
Ter"ror*less, a. Free from terror. Poe.
Ter"ry (?), n. A kind of heavy colored fabric, either all silk, or silk
and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used for
upholstery and trimmings.
||Ter*sanc"tus (?), n. [L. ter thrice + sanctus holy.] (Eccl.) An
||ancient ascription of praise (containing the word "Holy" — in its
||Latin form, "Sanctus" — thrice repeated), used in the Mass of the
||Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of consecration in the
||communion service of the Church of England and the Protestant
||Episcopal Church. Cf. Trisagion.
||
Terse (?), a. [Compar. Terser (?); superl. Tersest.] [L. tersus, p. p.
of tergere to rub or wipe off.] 1. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off;
rubbed; smooth; polished. [Obs.]
Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power
attractive.
Sir T. Browne.
2. Refined; accomplished; — said of persons. [R. & Obs.] "Your polite
and terse gallants." Massinger.
3. Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to
smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.
Terse, luminous, and dignified eloquence.
Macaulay.
A poet, too, was there, whose verse Was tender, musical, and terse.
Longfellow.
Syn. — Neat; concise; compact. Terse, Concise. Terse was defined by
Johnson "cleanly written", i. e., free from blemishes, neat or smooth.
Its present sense is "free from excrescences," and hence, compact, with
smoothness, grace, or elegance, as in the following lones of Whitehead:
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"In eight terse lines has Phædrus told (So frugal were the bards of
old) A tale of goats; and closed with grace, Plan, moral, all, in that
short space."
It differs from concise in not implying, perhaps, quite as much
condensation, but chiefly in the additional idea of "grace or
elegance."
— Terse"ly, adv. — Terse"ness, n.
Ter*sul"phide (?), n. [Pref. ter- + sulphide.] (Chem.) A trisulphide.
Ter*sul"phu*ret (?), n. [Pref. ter- + sulphuret.] (Chem.) A
trisulphide. [R.]
Ter"-ten`ant (?), n. See Terre- tenant.
Ter"tial (?), a. & n. [From L. tertius third, the tertial feathers
being feathers of the third row. See Tierce.] (Zoöl.) Same as Tertiary.
Ter"tian (?), a. [L. tertianus, from tertius the third. See Tierce.]
(Med.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.
Ter"tian, n. [L. tertiana (sc. febris): cf. OF. tertiane.] 1. (Med.) A
disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third
day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
2. A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial,
or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.
Ter"ti*a*ry (?), a. [L. tertiarius containing a third part, fr. tertius
third: cf. F. tertiaire. See Tierce.] 1. Being of the third formation,
order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word. Trench.
2. (Chem.) Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been
subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a
tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.