Definition of "shrove" [shrove]

• A past tense of shrive. (verb)

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• "Tomorrow being Ash Wednesday and the first day of Lent in the Latin rite, this is Shrove Tuesday -- "shrove" as in "shriven"."
• "Nebber mind, I not eat stack of cats – i can has shrove toosday stak of pancakes insted!"
• "I can has maple sirip 4 shrove toosday to eat stack of cats?"