stryve

English

Verb

stryve

1. Obsolete spelling of strive.
   • 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis‎^[1]:

     For he with him hath evere fyve Servantz that helpen him to stryve: The ferst of hem Malencolie Is cleped, which in compaignie An hundred times in an houre Wol as an angri beste loure, 30 And noman wot the cause why.

   • 1865, Alexander Hume, Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue‎^[2]:

     But this corruption is caryed with a stronger tyde then reason can resist, and we wil not stryve with the stream. 14.

Anagrams

• vestry