shrieve
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
See sheriff.
Noun edit
shrieve (plural shrieves)
- Obsolete form of sheriff.
- 1591, unknown author, The Troublesome Reign of King John:
- 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.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- I know him: he was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris, from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's fool with child: a dumb innocent that could not say him nay.
Usage notes edit
- Also appears capitalised, particularly when used as a title.
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See shrive.
Verb edit
shrieve (third-person singular simple present shrieves, present participle shrieving, simple past shrieved, past participle shrieved or shriven)
- Obsolete form of shrive.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere:
- He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away
The Albatross's blood.
- 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto First. The Castle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza XXII, page 44:
- The jealous churl hath deeply swore,
That, if again he venture o’er,
He shall shrieve penitent no more.
- (obsolete) To question.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “The Faerie Queene”, in Henry John Todd, editor, The Works of Edmund Spenser, published 1869, page 243:
- 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: