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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,

of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.] Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.

One who, or that which, grieves.

injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. Macaulay.

To grieve. [Obs.] Spenser.

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

te to anger; to enrage; to provoke. Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people. Clarendon.

nt; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves. Gen. xlv. 5. Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice Eccles. v. 6.

To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve. [R.] Beau. & fl.

, or exemption. My mother, Who has a charter to extol her blood, When she does praise me, grieves me. Shak.

To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with. Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you. Sir W. Temple.

supplied to a hostile belligerent except at the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved belligerent. Wharton.

to deprive of citizenship; to denationalize. [R.] They also claimed the privilege, when aggrieved, of denaturalizing themselves, or, in other words, of publicly renouncing their allegiance to their sovereign, and of enlisting under the banners of his enemy. Prescott.

To grieve. [Obs.]

To grieve; to feel sad. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To stir with strong emotion; to grieve; to mourn.

To err in judgment; to be mistaken. Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps Shall grieve him, if I fail not. Milton.

self to be; - - followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded. I then did feel full sick. Shak.

Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. [Obs.] Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, That he ran mad and died. Shak. Foreign attachment (Law), a process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, e…

The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.] Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. Spenser.