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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
reive .
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Examples
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At any rate, having author - ized me to propose terms of accommodation here, it would probably wait for information concerning the manner in which they had - been re* reived, before it would consent to more unfavorable conditions.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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Side below which a rugid black rock about 20 feet biter than the Common high fluds of the river with Several dry Chapels which appeared to Choke the river up quite across; this I took to be the 2d falls or the place the nativs above call timm, The nativs of this village reived me verry kindly, one of whome envited me into his house, which I found to be large and comodious, and the first wooden houses in which Indians have lived Since we left those in the vicinty of the
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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‘Reive nothing away, and let nothing be reived from you.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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‘Let nothing spill from you in excess, let nothing be reived from you.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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