engrieve

English

Etymology

en- +‎ grieve

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪŋˈɡɹiːv/

Verb

engrieve (third-person singular simple present engrieves, present participle engrieving, simple past and past participle engrieved)

1. (archaic, transitive) To cause grief to, to vex or pain; to associate with vexation or pain.
   • 1563, John Foxe, Foxe's Book of Martyrs: the Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church:

     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.

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

     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.

   • 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.

2. (archaic, intransitive) To grieve.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Seeing his worke now wasted, deepe engrieved was