Awe \Awe\ ([add]), n. [OE. a[yogh]e, aghe, fr. Icel. agi; akin
   to AS. ege, [=o]ga, Goth. agis, Dan. ave chastisement, fear,
   Gr. 'a`chos pain, distress, from the same root as E. ail.
   [root]3. Cf. Ugly.]
   1. Dread; great fear mingled with respect. [Obs. or
      Obsolescent]
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            His frown was full of terror, and his voice
            Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe.
                                                  --Cowper.
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   2. The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an
      undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime;
      reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.
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            There is an awe in mortals' joy,
            A deep mysterious fear.               --Keble.
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            To tame the pride of that power which held the
            Continent in awe.                     --Macaulay.
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            The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the
            mountain, may fill the mind with awe -- the sense of
            our own littleness in some greater presence or
            power.                                --C. J. Smith.
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   To stand in awe of, to fear greatly; to reverence
      profoundly.
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   Syn: See Reverence.
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	Awe \Awe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Awed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
   Awing.]
   To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to
   control by inspiring dread.
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         That same eye whose bend doth awe the world. --Shak.
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         His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the
         bystanders.                              --Macaulay.
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	awe
    n 1: an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; "he stared
         over the edge with a feeling of awe"
    2: a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the
       fear of God"; "the Chinese reverence for the dead"; "the
       French treat food with gentle reverence"; "his respect for
       the law bordered on veneration" [syn: fear, reverence,
       awe, veneration]
    v 1: inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the
         undergraduates"

	

	118 Moby Thesaurus words for "awe":
   abject fear, admiration, adoration, affright, alarm, amaze,
   amazement, apotheosis, appall, appreciation, approbation, approval,
   astonish, astonishment, astound, astoundment, awestrike,
   be widely reputed, bedaze, bedazzle, beguilement, bewilder,
   bewilderment, blue funk, boggle, bowl down, bowl over,
   breathless adoration, breathless wonder, command respect, confound,
   consideration, consternation, courtesy, cowardice, daunt, daze,
   dazzle, deference, deification, deter, discourage, dishearten,
   dismay, dread, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumbfoundment, duty, esteem,
   estimation, exaggerated respect, fascination, favor, faze, fear,
   flabbergast, freeze, fright, funk, great respect, have prestige,
   hero worship, high regard, homage, honor, horrification, horrify,
   horror, idolatry, idolization, inspire respect, marvel, marveling,
   overawe, overwhelm, panic, panic fear, paralyze, perplex, petrify,
   phobia, prestige, puzzlement, rank high, regard, respect,
   reverence, reverential regard, scare, scare stiff, scare to death,
   sense of mystery, sense of wonder, shake, shock, spook, stagger,
   stampede, stand high, startle, stop, strike dead, strike dumb,
   strike terror into, strike with wonder, stun, stupefaction,
   stupefy, surprise, terrify, terror, terrorize, unholy dread,
   veneration, wonder, wonderment, worship

	

	AWE
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AWE

    (AWE) The kind of synthesis used
   by the EMU 8000 music synthesizer integrated circuit found
   on the SB AWE32 card.

   (1996-12-15)