Definition of Shrived

1. shrive [v] - See also: shrive

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrived

shrinks
shrinkwrap
shrinkwrap license
shrinkwrap licenses
shrinkwrapped
shrinkwrapping
shrinkwraps
shrinky
shris
shritch
shritched
shritches
shrivalties
shrivalty
shrive
shrived (current term)
shrivel
shrivel up
shriveled
shriveler
shrivelers
shriveling
shrivelled
shriveller
shrivellers
shrivelling
shrivels
shriven
shriver
shrivers

Literary usage of Shrived

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"The scene in which he is shrived by the Carmelite monk, in his boat, under the midnight moon, upon the Lagoons, is one of the finest we know of in the whole ..."

2. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"... the confession to be taken; and thereupon Ambrosio was shrived and shot; and his body was buried, as Vallejo expressed it, in the "pantheon of San Jose. ..."

3. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"... important than the scruples of a priest* and directing the confession to be taken; and thereupon Ambrosio was shrived and shot; and his body was buried, ..."

4. Thómas Saga Erkibyskups: A Life of Archbishop Thomas Becket, in Icelandic by Eiríkr Magnússon (1883)
"How KING HENRY WAS shrived. As soon as the letters of the lord pope came to the archbishop of Sens he interpreted their purport to be, that first he must ..."

5. The Life of Marguerite D'Angoulême: Queen of Navarre, Duchesse D'Alençon and by Martha Walker Freer (1854)
"... by allowing Marguerite to be shrived in secret by a Franciscan friar, while the prelates and clergy of Bear n and Foix remained aloof. ..."

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