engrieve

present singular third person engrieves · participle present engrieving · participle past engrieved · past engrieved

1. archaictransitiveTo cause grief to, to vex or pain; to associate with vexation or pain.

   1998, Annabel M. Patterson (editor), The trial of Nicholas Throckmorton (apparently derived from Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577), I am sorry to engrieve any other man's doings, but it serveth me for a piece of my defence, and therefore I wish that no man should gather evil of it.

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   If any man had either fondly or indiscreetly spoken of Lent to engrieve it to be an importable burden, I would wish his reformation ; for I have not learned that all men are bound to keep the Lent in the form received.

   1563, John Foxe, Foxe's Book of Martyrs: the Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church

   Even in men, aches and hurts and corns do engrieve, either towards rain or towards frost : for the one maketh the humours more to abound ; and the other maketh them sharper.

   1834, Francis Bacon, edited by Basil Montagu, The Works Of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England

   Synonyms: distress, aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, grieve, pain

2. archaicintransitiveTo grieve.

   Seeing his worke now wasted, deepe engrieved was

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Synonyms: grieven, mourn, aggrieve, besorrow, condole, darken, erme, gloom