▪ I. † aˈggrave, v. Obs. rare.
Also agrave.
[a. Fr. aggrave-r (earlier agraver): see aggrieve.]
A by-form connecting aggrieve and aggravate.
| 1530 Palsgr. 419/1, I agrudge, I am agraved, Je suis greuè. 1612 T. Taylor Titus i. 12 (1619) 256 When the heart is so aggraved, the whole man is vnfit either for heauenly or earthly exercise. |
▪ II. ‖ aˈggrave, n. Obs.
[Fr.]
= aggravation 3.
| 1725 tr. Dupin, Eccl. Hist. 17th c. I. v. 190 An Error, common enough, that Excommunication is not denounc'd till after the Fulmination of the Aggrave. |