shrieve
verb/ʃɹiːv/
Etymology See shrive.
1
Obsolete Obsolete form of shrive.
- […]he ordered [father Jerome] to be called and shrieve the prisoner.1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto:
- He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away The Albatross's blood.1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere:
1 more example
- The jealous churl hath deeply swore, That, if again he venture o’er, He shall shrieve penitent no more.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:
2
Obsolete To question.
- 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:1596, Edmund Spenser, “The Faerie Queene”, in Henry John Todd, editor, The Works of Edmund Spenser, published 1869, page 243: