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shrive
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shrive \Shrive\, v. t. [imp. Shrived or Shrove ; p. p. Shriven or 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure [syn: confess , squeal ] [also: shrove , shriven ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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.
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.