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▪ I. griping, vbl. n.1|ˈgraɪpɪŋ|
[f. gripe v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of gripe v.1 in various senses.
a1300E.E. Psalter cxlix. 6 Gripinges ofe swerde in þair hende. c1440Promp. Parv. 213/1 Grypynge wythe þe hande, or oþer lyke, constrictio, compressio. c1440Staunton St. Patrick's Purgatory (E.E.T.S.) 73 Bi þe help of þat woman and of myne owne grypyng, I steied vppon þat ladder. 1526Tindale Matt. iv. 24 They brought unto hym all sicke people, that were taken with divers diseases and gripinges. [So Coverdale, Geneva; 1611 torments.] 1607Hieron Wks. I. 390 Rackings, enhaunsings, gripings, vsuries. 1610R. Douland Var. Lute-lessons B 2 b marg., For Griping of stops in B. a1665J. Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 237 Secret wringings and gripings and gnawings of conscience. 1709Mrs. Manley Secr. Mem. (1736) III. 190 Her Favourite Stauratius's Griping and Extortions. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Griping..the inclination of a ship to run to windward of her course, particularly when she sails with the wind on her beam or quarter. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 185 Ventral gripings. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xxxv, The tendency of her legal practice had been to fix her thoughts on small gains and gripings. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xviii. 289 The leading symptoms of dysentery are those of inflammation of the great intestine—namely, griping, tenesmus, &c.
▪ II. ˈgriping, vbl. n.2
The action of gripe v.2
1805,1846[see gripe v.2].
▪ III. griping, ppl. a.|ˈgraɪpɪŋ|
[f. gripe v.1 + -ing2.]
1. That gripes, grasps, or clutches tightly. Also fig. of persons, their actions, etc.: Grasping, usurious, avaricious, ‘squeezing’.
1573L. Lloyd Pilgr. Princes (1586) 47 To auoid y⊇ griping pawes of a hungry Sparhaucke. 1587Holinshed Chron. I. 71/1 Manie of them..were constrained to yeeld themselues into the griping hands of their enemies. 1658Whole Duty Man xi. §9. 89 Extortion, and griping usury. 1697Dryden æneid vi. 303 He seiz'd the shining bough with griping hold. 1710Steele Tatler No. 223 ⁋1 This Method of making Settlements was first invented by a griping Lawyer. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. p. xxxi, A griping landlord. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xx. IV. 518 Oppressed by cruel and griping men in power.
absol.1785J. Trusler Mod. Times II. 57 The griping, the usurious, and the lawless.
2. Causing pain or distress, physical or mental; painful, distressing.
1568T. Howell Newe Sonets (1879) 117 Through greeping griefe, and thought so sore opprest. 1577T. Kendall Flowers Epigr. S vj b, Oh grisly gripyng grief. 1645Quarles Sol. Recant. v. 68 The heart-corroding Fangs Of griping Care. 1666Baxter Call to Unconverted 225 O what a griping thought it will be..to think..That this was your own doing! 1897P. Waring Tales Old Regime 97 The griping hunger, which might be gratified in a moment if they would.
3. Applied more or less spec. to spasmodic constricting pains in the bowels; having the pathological effect of ‘gripes’; also, causing or producing ‘gripes’.
1578Lyte Dodoens i. xlix. 71 The same..swageth the gryping paynes of the belly. 1626Bacon Sylva §546–47 That Windinesse is Grosse, and Swelling; Not Sharpe or Griping. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 351 It excites Vomiting, sharp griping Pains with wind in other Parts of the Bowels. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 254 The griping property of Castor oil. 1882Garden 28 Oct. 381/2 The Griping Fruited Service. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 752 Each stool is preceded by griping pains in the belly.
Hence ˈgripingly adv., ˈgripingness.
1626Bacon Sylva §65 Clisters also helpe, lest the Medicine stop in the Guts, and worke gripingly. 1640Digby in Lismore Papers Ser. ii. (1888) IV. 139 Thinges..being wrested out of it, maketh it not onely be gripingly held, but [etc.]. 1683Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly 80 Another with a Logic-fisted gripingness catches at and grasps all he can come within the reach of. |