exasperate

To tax the patience of; irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.

And this report Hath so exasperate [sic] the king that he Prepares for some attempt of war.

The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.

Exasperated.

And this report Hath ſo exaſperate their King, that hee Prepares for ſome attempt of Warre.

Exasperated; embittered.

Thersites. Do I curse thee? Patroclus. Why no, you ruinous butt, you whoreson indistinguishable cur, no. Thersites. No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleave-silk […]

Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning […]