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Shrove [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To join in the festivities of Shrove-tide. [ Obs .]

Shrove Webster's Dictionary 1913

Shrove [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To join in the festivities of Shrovetide; hence, to make merry.

Shrove tuesday Encyclopedia Britannica

SHROVE TUESDAY, the day preceding Ash Wednesday, or the first day of Lent, was so called as the day on which “shrift” or confession was made. Compare Carnival.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 21, p. 848
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Shrove-tide [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

[from shrove , preterit tense of shrive , to take a confession. See Tide and

Shrove-tuesday [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

SHROVE-TUESDAY , Tuesday .] Confession-time; confession-Teusday; the Tuesday after Quinquagesima Sunday; or the day immediately preceding the first of Lent, or Ash Wednesday; on which day, all the people of England when of the Catholic religion, were obliged to confess their sins one by one to their parish priests; after which they dined on pancakes or fritters. The latter ppractice still continues. The bell rung on this day is called pancake-bell.

Shrovetide [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday.