ETYMOLOGY
from grin (vb.)
EXAMPLE
“… Fyrst, bycause none haue ye Prophets marke but such as be godly & lament wickednesse. But many of the diuels children, grinagods and such other, be crossed, and cursed to. Then also the proportion is so farre different, that there is no likenesse betwixt them. But for the likenesse of the effect, they may be well compared together. …”
From: An Aunsvvere to the Treatise of the Crosse wherin ye shal see by the plaine and vndoubted word of God, the vanities of men disproued
By James Calfhill, 1565
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