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Look up: horror

  1. horror
    [n] - intense and profound fear 2. [n] - something that inspires horror
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Horror
    Hor'ror noun [ Formerly written horrour .] [ Latin horror , from horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread, to be dreadful or terrible; confer Sanskrit h...sh to bristle.] 1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. [ Archaic] « Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves.» Chapman ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/62

  3. horror
    1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. 'Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves.' (Chapman) ... 2. A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor. ... 3. A painful emotion of f ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  4. horror
    noun something that inspires dislike; something horrible; `the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  5. Horror
    `Horror` is an emotion of fear or revulsion. It may also refer to: *Horror fiction, the genre *Horror film, the genre in film *`Horror` (album), an album by Cannae
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror

  6. Horror
    • (n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking. • (n.) That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. • (n.) A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medica...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. horror
    horror 1. A very strong feeling of fear, shock, or disgust. 2. A feeling of distress or distaste: 'She has a horror of snakes.' 3. Something that causes a very strong feeling of fear, shock, or disgust: 'The public is starting to be more aware of the horrors of war.' 4. A very unpleasant or unsightly thing.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  8. horror
    Dread; fear. [L.]
    Found on

  9. horror
    1. intense and profound fear
    2. intense aversion

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18 March 2010

This day in history:
On March 18th, 1314 Jacques de Molay was led out before the people to publicly confess his and the order's sins. He recanted his earlier confessions and said the only crime he was guilty of was lying about his Brethren to relieve his own tortures. He was then taken to an island on the Siene and burned along with Geoffrey de Charney the Preceptor of Normandy. He was first appointed the position of Visitor General and latterly to the post of Grand Preceptor of all England. Although de Molay confessed to denying Christ and trampling on the Holy Cross, he steadfastly denounced the accusations that the initiation ritual consisted of homosexual practices. read more

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