Obs. Also 6 tetrik, 7 tetrick(e. [ad. L. tætric-us, tētric-us forbidding, harsh, gloomy, f. tæter foul: see -IC.] = TETRICAL.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, I. viii. (S.T.S.), I. 45. In þe tetrik and soroufull science vsit amang þe sabynis.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, iii. 23. It [wine] … correcteth the tetrick qualities which that age is subiect vnto.
1682. Sir T. Browne, Wks. (1835), IV. 276. Her youthful days are over, and her face hath become wrinkled and tetrick.
1811. H. Martyn, Diary, in Mem. (1825), III. 378. Amongst the others who came and sat with us, was my tetric adversary, Agra Acher.
So † Tetricity [L. tætricitās], † Tetritude [L. tætritūdo], the quality of being ‘tetric,’ harshness, sourness; † Tetricous a. = TETRIC a.1
1623. Cockeram, Tetricitie, the sourenesse of the countenance.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Tetricity, sournesse or sadnesse of countenance. Tetritude, idem.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Tetricous, sour in Countenance, crabbed, morose.
