MENACED
Verb
menaced
simple past tense and past participle of menace
Adjective
menaced
subject to menaces; threatened
Source: Wiktionary
MENACE
Men"ace, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. minaciae threats, menaces, fr. minax, -
acis, projecting, threatening, minae projecting points or pinnacles,
threats. Cf. Amenable, Demean, Imminent, Minatory.]
Definition: 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. Milman.
The dark menace of the distant war. Dryden.
Men"ace, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Menaced (ast); p. pr. & vb. n.
Menacing.] Etym: [OF. menacier, F. 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. Shak.
2. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
By oath he menaced Revenge upon the cardinal. Shak.
Men"ace, v. i.
Definition: To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
Who ever knew the heavens menace so Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition