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Definition of Shrives
1. shrive [v] - See also: shrive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrives
Literary usage of Shrives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in by Edward William Cox (1882)
"Third count: And the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do further
present that the said John O'Callaghan, Phillip shrives, William Stroud, ..."
2. A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559 by Charles Wriothesley (1875)
"... the mayre to have but 7 dishes at the moste at dinner or supper at one messe
for his owne table, and the shrives but 6 dishes, and every alderman ..."
3. Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas & Exchequer by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, John Scott (1834)
"James King and John King (the trustees and executors) had therefore, since the
death of the testator, entered into a contract with W illiam shrives (the ..."
4. Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in by United States Dept. of the Interior, United States General Land Office (1901)
"Upon consideration of the proof submitted by shrives, the local officers expressed
their opinion to the effect that shrives, in law and equity, was entitled ..."
5. Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in by United States Dept. of the Interior, United States General Land Office (1901)
"Upon consideration of the proof submitted by shrives, the local officers expressed
their opinion to the effect that shrives, in law mid equity, was entitled ..."
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