Definition of "frighted" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of fright. (verb)

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• "From the partial representations of narrow-minded bigots, who paint the Deity from their own gloomy conceptions, the young are too often frighted from the paths of virtue; despairing of ideal perfections, they give up all virtue as unattainable, and start aside from the road which they falsely suppose strewed with thorns."
• "This was an extraordinary case, and I am therefore the more particular in it, because I came so much to the knowledge of it; but there were innumerable such-like cases, and it was seldom that the weekly bill came in but there were two or three put in, 'frighted'; that is, that may well be called frighted to death."
• "I was therefore in danger of falling into the same predicament as Murtagh, becoming "frighted" from having nothing to do!"