Definition of "engrieve" in Anglais

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To cause grief to, to vex or pain; to associate with vexation or pain.

   • 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.