Menace
Menace (men"as; 48) , noun
[French, from Latin minaciae threats, menaces, from minax, -acis, projecting, threatening, minae projecting points or pinnacles, threats. Compare Amenable, Demean, Imminent, Minatory.]
The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces.
The dark menace of the distant war.
Menace (men"as; 48) , transitive verb
[Old French menacier, French menacer. See Menace, n.]
1.
To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war.
My master... did menace me with death.
2.
To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
By oath he menaced
Revenge upon the cardinal.
Menace , intransitive verb
To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
Who ever knew the heavens menace so?