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▪ I. † griph Obs.
In 7 gryphe; also in L. form griphus.
[ad. L. grīphus, a. Gr. γρῖϕος fishing-basket, creel; dark saying, riddle. Cf. F. griphe.]
A puzzling question; a riddle, enigma.
a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. iv. 71 That old gryphe or riddle of the Peripatetic school. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams ii. (1692) 132 No Law or Practice directs the Subject to bring such Gryphes and Oracles, but plain, litteral, grammatical Notions of Libels to a Justice of Peace. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §21. 388 That seemingly monstrous Paradox or puzzling Griphus of theirs [the Pythagoreans] that ‘Numbers were the Causes and Principles of all things’. 1796Pegge Anonym. (1809) 418 A griphus or ænigma adduced by Tollius in his edition of Ausonius.
▪ II. griph(e
variant of gryph, vulture. Obs. |