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Me chagrine, annoys me

"... Phèdre vous chagrine, et blesse votre vue."

(Racine, Phèdre, i. i.)

1. 234. Benêt t idiot, silly. Benêt is the Normand way of pronouncing the old adjective Benoit (benedictus), which was applied formerly to crazy people on the authority of the text, Beati pauperes spiritu. 1. 236. La Halle t the market-place.

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