CRIOUS ADJ. noisy, clamorous ...a1382 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Anglo-Norman crious (also crieis, criois) (clamorous), from crier (vb. cry) + -ous FIRST DOCUMENTED USE a1382 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...A fool womman, and crious, and ful of euele draȝtis to delicis, and no þing outerli kunnende, ſat in þe ȝate doris of hir hous, vpon a ſete, in þe heȝe place of þe cite..." From: The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books, in the earliest English versions made from the Latin Vulgate - John Wycliffe and His Followers. Edited by the Rev. Josiah Forshall and Sir Frederic Madden
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