pĕr-horresco, rui, 3, 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.