shrieving

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