φρῑκ-ώδης, ες,
attended with shivering, πνρετὸς φ. a fever with shivering fits, ague, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.2, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.59; δυσουρία φ. 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 3.5; οἱ φ. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]those who suffer from such fits, [[ [prev. author] “Coac.” 12, +others] Refs]; τὸ φ. roughness, unevenness of the skin, as in aguish fits,[[ [prev. work] 17, compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.195. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II that causes shuddering or horror, awful, horrible, ὄψις [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1336 (Lyric poetry); τὰ δεινὰ καὶ φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.29 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φρικώδη κλύειν horrible to hear, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1202 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; frequently in later Prose, δόξαι φ. [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.50 ] Refs 1st c.BC+] K.; φ. ἄποψις, θέαμα, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 843a16, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marcellus” 15, Anonymus “Oxy.” 416.9, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 1.31c; τὸ -έστατον τῶν κακῶν ὁ θάνατος 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 3p.61U.; -έστατος ὅρκος “PStrassb.” 48.6 (6th c.AD), etc.: _neuter_ φρικῶδες,] Refs 4th c.BC+] as adverb, horribly, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1216. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.b inspiring religious awe, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Tiberius Gracchus” 21 (_superlative_), 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor 1.256J. ] Refs 1st c.AD+] adverb superlative, ἁγιώτατα καὶ φρικωδέστατα ἔχειν, of the terrors of a court of justice, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.74. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]