awful, horrible, dreadful; frightening, chilling, exciting terror
Latin word, found 22 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Aeneid 3.225: At subitae horrifico lapsu de montibus adsunt
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.609: horrifice fertur divinae matris imago.
Lucan, Civil War 2.372: Ille nec horrificam sancto dimovit ab ore
All forms of horrificus