They sette mark hir metyng sholde be
Ther King Nynus was graven, under a tree.
Chaucer, Legend of Good Women, 784 (Skeat, p. 50).
I wil laye sege to the rounde aboute, and grave up dykes against ye.—Isai. xxix. 3. Coverdale.
He hath graven and digged up a pit, and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for other.—Ps. vii. 16. (P. B. V.)
Grope. Now to feel for, and uncertainly, as does a blind man or one in the dark; but once simply to feel, to grasp.
Tho han hondis, and schulen not grope [et non palpabunt, Vulg.]—Ps. cxiii. 7. Wiclif.
I have touched and tasted the Lord, and groped Him with hands, and yet unbelief hath made all unsavoury.—Rogers, Naaman the Syrian, p. 231.
Grudge. Now to repine at the good which others already have, or which we may be required to impart to them; but it formerly implied open utterances of discontent and displeasure against others, and did the work which ‘to murmur’ does now. Traces of this still survive in our English Bible.
And the Farisees and scribis grutchiden; seiynge, For this resseyveth synful men, and etith with hem.—Luke xv. 2. Wiclif.