rive (v.) Old form(s): riu'd , riue
split, rend, cleave
AC IV.xiii.5[Charmian to Cleopatra] The soul and body rive not more in parting / Than greatness going off
Cor V.iii.153[Volumnia to Coriolanus] to charge thy sulphur with a bolt / That should but rive an oak
JC I.iii.6[Casca to Cicero] the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks
JC IV.iii.84[Cassius to Brutus] Brutus hath rived my heart
TC I.i.37[Troilus to Pandarus] my heart, / As wedged with a sigh, would rive in twain
TC I.iii.316[Ulysses to Nestor] Blunt wedges rive hard knots
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