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grype en · VERB · etymology 1

Meanings

1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete spelling of gripe.
   alt of gripe

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grype en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Middle English gripe, from Old French gripe, from Latin gryps, grȳphus, from Ancient Greek γρῡ́ψ (grū́ps).

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.
   • The vncleane eate not: to witte, the eagle, and the grype, and the oſprey, the ringtaile, and the vulture and kite according to their kinde: […] 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomie 14:12–13, page 427:
   • His faders deed bodye..he devyded to an hondred grypes lest he sholde ryde from dethe to lyfe. 1520, Chronicles of England; quoted in “Gripe, sb.³”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes IV (F–G), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 430, column 1:
   • Like a white Hinde vnder the grypes ſharpe clawes, […] 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature E2, recto:
   • I dreamed a grype and a grimlie beast / Had carryed my crowne away, / My gorgett and my kirtle of golde, / And all my faire heade-geere. a. 1767, “Sir Aldingar”, in Francis James Child, editor, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, part III, Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, published 1885, page 45:
   • One grype-ſchill, with a covering, gilt, […] 1758 [1540], “The Inventory of such Things as were kept in the Church of Fountains”, in John Burton, editor, Monasticon Eboracense: and the Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire, York: […] for the Author, by N. Nickson, […], page 144:
   • O my child, grypes make their nests of gold though their coates are feathers; […] 1588 (first recorded performance; first printed in 1592), John Lilly, “Gallathea”, in The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, (The Euphuist.) With Notes and Some Account of His Life and Writings by F. W. Fairholt, […]., volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], published 1858, page 237:

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