A select glossary of English words used formerly in senses different from their present

by Richard Chenevix Trench

He gave.

Chaucer, Dreame, 788.

Then spake another proud one, Would to heaven

I might at will get gold till he hath given

That bow his draught.

Chapman, The Odysseis of Homer, xxi. 533.

Dreadful. Now that which causes dread, but once that which felt it. See ‘Frightful,’ ‘Hateful.’

Forsothe the Lord shall gyve to thee there a dreedful herte and faylinge eyen.—Deut. xxviii. 65. Wiclif.

And to a grove faste ther beside

With dredful foot than stalketh Palamon.