Grame vs Grave - What's the difference?
grame | grave |
(obsolete) Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
(obsolete) Sorrow; grief; misery.
* c. 1557 (published), Sir Thomas Wyatt, And Wilt Thou Leave me Thus? , lines 3 and 4:
(obsolete) To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
(obsolete) To grieve; be sorry.
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
* (rfdate), 11:17:
* 1856 , Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), (Gustave Flaubert) (author), (Madame Bovary) , Part III, Chapter X:
death, destruction.
(obsolete) To dig.
* (rfdate) (Book of Prayer) , (Psalms) 7:16:
(obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
* (w) 28:9:
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* (rfdate) (Robert Louis Stevenson), Requiem :
(obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
* (rfdate) (Geoffrey Chaucer):
(obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
* (rfdate) (Matthew Prior):
(obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
* (rfdate), (William Shakespeare):
(transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
(obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
(obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
*, II.3.7:
Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre.
Low in pitch, tone etc.
* (rfdate) (Moore), Encyclopedia of Music :
Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.
In obsolete terms the difference between grame and grave
is that grame is sorrow; grief; misery while grave is influential, important; authoritative.In transitive obsolete terms the difference between grame and grave
is that grame is to vex; grill; make angry or sorry while grave is to entomb; to bury.In intransitive obsolete terms the difference between grame and grave
is that grame is to grieve; be sorry while grave is to write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.As an adjective grave is
influential, important; authoritative.grame
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) grame, gram, grome, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(-)- (Chaucer)
- (Chaucer)
- To save thee from the blame / Of all my grief and grame .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) gramen, gramien, from (etyl) gramian, .Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(gram)grave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . Related to (l).Noun
(en noun)- He had lain in the grave four days.
- They reached the cemetery. The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug. They ranged themselves all round; and while the priest spoke, the red soil thrown up at the sides kept noiselessly slipping down at the corners.
Derived terms
* begrave * dance on someone's grave * dig one's own grave * early grave * graveclothes * grave marker * grave robber * graverobbing * gravedigger * gravelike * graveside * gravesite * gravestone * graveward * mass grave * turn in one's grave * war grave * white man's graveSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
- He hath graven and digged up a pit.
- Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.
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- This be the verse you grave for me / "Here he lies where he longs to be"
- With gold men may the hearte grave .
- O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
- Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave , and wise.
- ''The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.