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Great; excessive; grievous. [Obs.] Hayward. Immortal flowers, imortelles; everlastings.

To render more grievous; to aggravate. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

erely. At the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun . . . and afterward did more grievously afflict her. Is. ix. 1.

or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n.

hstanding; in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11.

Affliction; distress; grievance. My people's pressures are grievous. Eikon Basilike. In the midst of his great troubles and pressures. Atterbury.

xact a ransom for, or a payment on. [R.] Such lands as he had rule of he ransomed them so grievously, and would tax the men two or three times in a year. Berners.

Grievously; deeply; sorrowfully; miserably. "He sadly suffers in their grief." Dryden.

form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape. He beat me grievously, in the shape of a woman. Shak.

In a sore manner; with pain; grievously. Thy hand presseth me sore. Ps. xxxviii. 2.

In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted.

Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous; as, a sorrowful accident.

Loss; damage; injury. [Obs.] A grievous . . . sufferance on most part of their fleet. Shak.

Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

To pain; to distress; to afflict. Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. Matt. viii. 6.

A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident.

Anything very bitter or grievous; bitterness. Lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood. Deut. xxix. 18. Roman wormwood (Bot.), an American weed (Ambrosia artemisiæfolia); hogweed. -- Tree wormwood (Bot.), a species of Artemisia (probably Artemisia variabilis) with woody stems. -- Wormwood…