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English
Noun
crie (plural cries)
- Obsolete spelling of cry.
1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Genesis 19:12–14:12 ¶ And the men said vnto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? sonne in law, and thy sonnes, and thy daughters, and whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bring them out of this place.
13 For we will destroy this place, because the crie of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD: and the LORD hath sent vs to destroy it.
14 And Lot went out, and spake vnto his sonnes in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get yee out of this place: for the LORD wil destroy this citie: but hee seemed as one that mocked, vnto his sonnes in law.
1622, John Downame, chapter IX, in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 60:So the Iewes, when they ſecurely bleſſed themſelues in their proſperitie,and drowned the voyce of the Lords Heralds, denouncing warre, with their lowder crie of peace, peace, were vanquiſhed by their enemies, and led into a miſerable captiuitie.
Verb
crie (third-person singular simple present cries, present participle crying, simple past and past participle cried)
- Obsolete spelling of cry.
1581, Richard Madox, A Learned and a Godly Sermon, to be read of all men, but especially for all marryners, captaynes and passengers, which trauell the seas, London:The Captaine in a Shippe of warre, is a iollie fellowe, and thinketh himselfe a lyttle God, because hee speaketh prowdlie to the Souldiors, and maketh them quayle at the shaking of his lockes: […] If any be vnrulie, hee casteth him ouerboorde, or if any be fearefull, hee bindes him to the Maste: if hée crie aloofe, the Helmes man dares not goe roomer: and if hée bidde shoote, the gunner dares not but giue fyre.
1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, 1 Kings 18:27, column 1:And it came to paſſe at noone, that Eliiah mocked them, and ſaide, Crie aloud: for he is a god, either he is talking, or he is purſuing, or hee is in a iourney, or peraduenture he ſleepeth, and muſt be awaked.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 17:Ariell:
Where the Bee ſucks, there ſuck I,
In a Cowslips bell, I lie,
There I cowch when Owles doe crie,
On the Batts backe I doe flie
after Sommer merrily.
Merrily, merrily, ſhall I liue now
Vnder the bloſſom that hangs on the Bow.
1616, M. Robert Anton, “The Philosophers fovrth Satyr of Mars”, in The Philosophers Satyrs, London: Printed by T C and B A for Roger Iackſon, page 36:Let Sacars, Culuerings, and Cannons ſound / In honour of their bones, and rock the ground / With all your deafning terrors: for behold / The Balſum for your wounds, are rich mens gold, / Powder the world with wonder, and thus crie, / The Camel now may paſſe the needles eie.
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
crie
- inflection of crier:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Etymology 2
cri + -e; Clipping of Christenaux. (now "Knistenaux"), from Cree Kenisteniwuik (the name of a Cree village)
Adjective
crie
- Pertaining to the Cree; feminine of cri
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
crie
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of criar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
crie
- Alternative form of cry
Etymology 2
Verb
crie
- Alternative form of crien
Old Irish
Pronunciation
Verb
·crie
- second-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of crenaid
Mutation
Mutation of crie
radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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·crie
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·chrie
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·crie pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Portuguese
Verb
crie
- inflection of criar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɾje/
- Rhymes: -e
- Syllabification: crie
Verb
crie
- first-person singular preterite indicative of criar
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English crie, from Old French cri, crïee.
Pronunciation
Noun
crie
- cry
1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 10, page 88:Th' hap, an ee ferde, an ee crie, was Tommeen.- The chance, and the fear, and the cry, was Tommeen.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 88