Shrieve
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Obsolete form of sheriff. alt-of, obsolete
"Please it your Majesty, here is the shrieve of Northamptonshire, with certain persons that of late committed a riot, and have appealed to your Majesty beseeching your Highness for special cause to hear them."
- 1 Obsolete form of shrive. alt-of, obsolete
"[…]he ordered [father Jerome] to be called and shrieve the prisoner."
- 2 To question. obsolete
"But afterwards she gan him soft to shrieve, And wooe with fair intreatie, to disclose Which of the nymphes his heart so sore did mieve:"
Example
More examples"Please it your Majesty, here is the shrieve of Northamptonshire, with certain persons that of late committed a riot, and have appealed to your Majesty beseeching your Highness for special cause to hear them."
Etymology
See sheriff.
See shrive.
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