Hateful. This has undergone exactly the same limitation of meaning as ‘Dreadful’ and ‘Frightful,’ which see.
Little office
The hateful Commons will perform for us,
Except like curs to tear us all to pieces.
Shakespeare, Richard II., act ii. sc. 2.
No more shall nation against nation rise,
Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes.
Pope, Messiah, 57.
Hear. Our scholars of the seventeenth century occasionally use the Latin idiom, ‘to hear well,’ or ‘to hear ill,’ i.e. concerning oneself (bene audire, male audire), instead of, to be praised, or to be blamed.
[Fabius] was well aware, that not only within his own camp, but also now at Rome, he heard ill for his temporizing and slow proceedings.—Holland, Livy, p. 441.