Grieve (?), Greeve, n. [AS. gerfa. Cf. Reeve an officer.]
A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff.
[Scot.]
Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve.
Sir W. Scott.
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Grieve (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grieved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Grieving.] [OE. greven, OF. grever, fr. L. gravare to burden, oppress, fr. gravis heavy. See Grief.]
1.
To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try.
Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.
Eph. iv. 30.
The maidens grieved themselves at my concern.
Cowper,
2.
To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate.
[R.]
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Grieve, v. i.
To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over.
Do not you grieve at this.
Shak.
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