Crossword clues for shrive
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shrive \Shrive\, v. i.
To receive confessions, as a priest; to administer confession
and absolution.
--Spenser.
Shrive \Shrive\, v. t. [imp. Shrivedor Shrove; p. p. Shrivenor Shrived; p. pr. & vb. n. Shriving.] [OE. shriven, schriven, AS. scr[=i]van to shrive, to impose penance or punishment; akin to OFries. skr[=i]va to impose punishment; cf. OS. biskr[=i]ban to be troubled. Cf. Shrift, Shrovetide.]
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To hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent.
That they should shrive their parishioners.
--Piers Plowman.Doubtless he shrives this woman, . . . Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech.
--Shak.Till my guilty soul be shriven.
--Longfellow. -
To confess, and receive absolution; -- used reflexively.
Get you to the church and shrive yourself.
--Beau. & Fl.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English scrifan "assign, prescribe, ordain, decree; impose penance, hear confession; have regard for, care for," apparently originally "to write" (strong, past tense scraf, past participle scrifen), from Proto-Germanic *skriban (cognates: Old Saxon scriban, Old Frisian skriva "write; impose penance;" Old Dutch scrivan, Dutch schrijven, German schreiben "to write, draw, paint;" Danish skrifte "confess"), an early borrowing from Latin scribere "to write" (see script (n.)), which in Old English and Scandinavian developed further to "confess, hear confession."
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive and intransitive English) To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.) 2 (context transitive English) To prescribe penance or absolution. 3 (context intransitive or reflexive English) To confess, and receive absolution.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "shrive".
Holy Mother must shrive me for breaking my vow, for if San Marco and San Teodoro would give me a place between them before the matins ring again--mistaking me for a traitor--I cannot take thee from Venice.
I shrove her and have prayed over her open grave--her spirit, which came to visit you from heaven, and has gone back to heaven now that you are of the earth again.
On Thursday, the 6th of March, 1862, two days after Shrove Tuesday, five women belonging to the village of La Jonchere presented themselves at the police station at Bougival.
She was last seen and spoken to on the evening of Shrove Tuesday, at twenty minutes past five.
The difficulty of the prosecution was not being able to produce any witness who had seen the prisoner during the evening of Shrove Tuesday.
He learnt that, on the evening of Shrove Tuesday, there had been found in one of the second class carriages, of train No.
His plan settled, he decided to strike the fatal blow on the Shrove Tuesday.
On Shrove Tuesday I dressed myself richly in the costume of Polichinello, and rode along the Corso showering sweetmeats on all the pretty women I saw.
It was I who shrove him when he lay dying of his wounds, and a nobler soul never passed from earth to heaven.
But, at last, he judged that all would be in readiness on the 20th of February, Shrove Sunday.
Sir John went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, lady, from Shrove Tuesday until Michalmas.
So actually on Shrove Tuesday a considerable number of boys were collected in front of the cathedral, and there divided into bands, which traversed the whole town, making a house-to-house visitation, claiming all profane books, licentious paintings, lutes, harps, cards and dice, cosmetics and perfumes--in a word, all the hundreds of products of a corrupt society and civilisation, by the aid of which Satan at times makes victorious war on God.
I knew Germany well enough to know that for some Germans Shrove Tuesday was best remembered as the anniversary of that night.
Then, armed with rope ladders attached to grappling hooks, they crept up on the castle in the dead of night and silently scaled the walls, silencing the sentries and taking the garrison by surprise in the midst of their Shrove Tuesday revelry.
Candlemas, a peasant on Shrove Tuesday, and a parson in Lent, is a man of pluck.