▪ I. † greme, n. Obs.
Also 4 grem.
[ad. ON. gremi:—OTeut. type *gramjo-, f. *gramo- grame a.]
1. Anger; wrath.
| 13.. E.E. Allit. P B. 16 Þay..hym to greme cachen. 13.. Propr. Sanct. (Vernon MS.) in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LXXXI. 94/30 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, þou slest and stonest prophetes wiþ grem. c 1460 Towneley Myst. vi. 73 He slo not, for old greme, these moders with thare barne teme. |
2. Grief, harm.
| 13.. Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2251, I schal gruch þe no grwe, for grem þat fallez. c 1400 Destr. Troy 603 With no gaudys me begyle, ne to grem brynge. c 1435 Torr. Portugal 1929 Hym to kepe frome greme. |
Hence † ˈgremeful a., sad; sorrowful.
| a 1300 Signs bef. Judgem. 156 in E.E.P. (1862) 11 So sore i-worþ adrad iwis of ihsu crist-is gremful wreche. |
▪ II. † greme, v. Obs.
Forms: 1–2 gremian, 3 gremen, -ien, (4 grem), 4– greme. Also pa. pple. 3 i-gremet.
[OE. gręmian = OHG. gremjan, gremen, ON. gremja, Goth. gramjan, f. OTeut. *gramo- grame a. Cf. grame v.]
1. trans. To anger, grieve; to vex.
| c 893 K. ælfred Oros. iv. i, He..þa oðre elpendas..gremede. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Mark xv. 29 Þa ðe forð-stopon hine gremedon & hyra heafod cwehton. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 25 He gremeð ure drihten. a 1225 St. Marher. 12 Stute nu uuele gast to gremien me mare. a 1250 Owl & Night. 931 The niȝtingale was i-gremet. c 1300 Havelok 441 Þat he shulde[n] him nouth greme. c 1400 Destr. Troy 12153 Scho..myche gremyt þe grekes in hir grete angur. |
b. impers. (it) gremes me, etc.: I, etc. am grieved.
| a 1310 in Wright Lyric P. x. 36 Heo me bed go my gates, lest hire gremede. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. C. 42 Bot lenge where-so-euer hir lyst, lyke oþer greme. |
2. intr. To become angry, be vexed.
| c 1400 Destr. Troy 1006 The grettyst of Grise gremyt þerat. c 1460 Anturs of Arth. 524 (Douce MS.) And Gawayne greches þerwith, and gremed ful sare. |
Hence ˈgreming vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| c 1205 Lay. 23489 Græmende segges gras-bæd isohten. ? a 1500 Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) II. 197 Ther is reminge, greminge, veramente. |