Threat : (noun)
1: something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a
constant threat in Japan" [syn: menace]
2: a warning that something unpleasant is imminent; "they were
under threat of arrest"
3: declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict
harm on another; "his threat to kill me was quite
explicit"
4: a person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of
the neighborhood" [syn: terror, scourge]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Threat : \Threat\ (thr[e^]t), n. [AS. [thorn]re['a]t, akin to
[=a][thorn]re['o]tan to vex, G. verdriessen, OHG. irdriozan,
Icel. [thorn]rj[=o]ta to fail, want, lack, Goth.
us[thorn]riutan to vex, to trouble, Russ. trudite to impose a
task, irritate, vex, L. trudere to push. Cf. Abstruse,
Intrude, Obstrude, Protrude.]
The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on
another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come;
menace; threatening; denunciation.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Threat : \Threat\, v. t. & i. [OE. [thorn]reten, AS.
[thorn]re['a]tian. See Threat, n.]
To threaten. [Obs. or Poetic] --Shak.
Of all his threating reck not a mite. --Chaucer.
Our dreaded admiral from far they threat. --Dryden.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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THREAT, crim. law. A menace of destruction or injury to the lives or
property of those against whom it is made.
2. Sending threatening letters to persons for the purpose of extorting
money, is said to, be a misdemeanor at common law. Hawk. B. 1, c. 53, s. 1;
2 Russ. on Cr. 575; 2 Chit. Cr. L. 841; 4 Bl. Com. l26. To be indictable,
theThreat : must be of a nature calculated to overcome a firm and prudent
man. The party who makes a threat may be held to bail for his good
behaviour. Vide Com. Dig. Battery, D; 13 Vin. Ab. 357.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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THREAT, evidence. Menace.
2. When a confession is obtained from a person accused of crime, in
consequence of a threat, evidence of such confession cannot be received,
because, being obtained by the torture of fear, it comes in so questionable
a shape, that no credit ought to be given to it; 1 Leach, 263; this is the
general principle, but what amounts to aThreat : is not so easily defined. It
is proper to observe, however, that the threat must be made by a person
having authority over the prisoner, or by another in the presence of such
authorized person, and not dissented from by the latter. 8 C. & P. 733. Vide
Confession, and the cases there cited.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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