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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Menace

Men′ace (mĕn′ās; 48), n. [F., fr. L. minaciae threats, menaces, fr. minax, -acis, projecting, threatening, minae projecting points or pinnacles, threats. Cf. Amenable, Demean, Imminent, Minatory.] The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.

His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces. Milman.

The dark menace of the distant war. Dryden.

Men′ace (mĕn′ās; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Menaced (āst); p. pr. & vb. n. Menacing.] [OF. menacier, F. menacer. See Menace, n.] 1. To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; — usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war.

My master . . . did menace me with death. Shak.

2. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.

By oath he menaced Revenge upon the cardinal. Shak.

Men′ace, v. i. To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.

Who ever knew the heavens menace so? Shak.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.