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Shrieve

//ʃɹiːv// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 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."

Verb
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of shrive. alt-of, obsolete

    "[…]he ordered [father Jerome] to be called and shrieve the prisoner."

  2. 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:"

Etymology

Etymology 1

See sheriff.

Etymology 2

See shrive.

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