I.v. inch. n. and a.
I. Neutr., to tremble or shudder greatly (class.): “toto corpore perhorresco,” Cic. Div. in Caecil. 13, 41: “recordatione consulatūs vestri,” id. Pis. 20, 45: “clamore perhorruit Aetne,” trembled, shook, Ov. M. 13, 877: “latumque perhorruit aequor (ventorum jactatibus),” id. ib. 6, 704.—
II. Act., to shudder greatly at, to have a great horror of any thing (class.): “hanc tantam religionem non perhorrescis?” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 35, § 78: “vexationem virginum Vestalium perhorresco,” id. Cat. 4, 6: “Bosporum,” Hor. C. 2, 13, 15.