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shrieved

shrieved is the simple past of shrieve.

Meaning of shrieve

Verb

shrieve (third-person singular simple present shrieves, present participle shrieving, simple past shrieved, past participle shrieved or shriven)

  1. (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

Questions about shrieved

What is shrieved the simple past of?
Shrieved is the simple past of shrieve.

Words near shrieved in the dictionary

  1. shrieky
  2. shrieval
  3. shrievalties
  4. shrievalty
  5. shrieve
  6. shrieved
  7. shrieves
  8. shrieving
  9. shrift
  10. shrift father
  11. shrift fathers

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