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Threpe, Threip(e, v. Also: threap(e, threep, thraip, thrip, thriep. [ME and e.m.E. þraepenn (Orm), threpe(n (a1300), threape (1559), OE þréapian to rebuke, reprehend.]

1. intr. To argue, dispute, quarrel. a1500 Rauf C. 79.
Na, thank me not ouir airlie, for dreid that we threip 1535 Stewart 57688.
[They] Begouth to threip quha than that war best peiris

b. To contend, struggle (with something). c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 169/59.
For with that craft I can nocht thraip

2. tr. To assert, insist, maintain obstinately. Const. clause object, with or without that. a1500 Rauf C. 197.
Thay threip that I thring doun of the fattest a1508 Kynd Kittok 5 (Ch. & M.).
Thay threpit that scho deit of thrist 1513 Doug. i Prol. 487.
Thocht sum wald swer that I the text haue vareit … Or threpe playnly that I come nevir neir hand it 1513 Doug. iii Prol. 18.
Wald God I had thar erys to pull Mysknawis the creid and threpis otheris forvayis 1513 Doug. Direct. 25 (Sm.).
Threipe 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 216.
The Ladie Home and vtheris wald neidis thraip in his face that he [sc. John Knox] was banist the said toun 1578–9 Waus Corr. 204.
My son … threipis that ye haif handillit him oncurtesle

3. To threpe (something) (up)on (of) (someone), to threpe on (someone) that (etc.), to try by persistent assertion to convince (someone), to insist (that something is the case). c1420 Wynt. ii 387.
He kend thaim … ilkane, And on thame threpyt thai ware spyis 1584 Waus Corr. 299.
My lord collector … hes thrippit vpon me that I wes caution to him for your lordschip … and hes preissit me to pay him 1639 Kirkcaldy Presb. 158.
Patrik heireing some deinn threaped upon the said Isobell that the durrs wer open, who anserit it was the cate 1675 Sel. Biog. II 173.
The devil … threaps by bold assertions on the soul what he would have it believe

b. To beg, solicit (kindness, love) from (chiefly, God). c1590 Fowler I 384/197.
Kyndenes dothe he on me threape 1590-1 R. Bruce Serm. 129.
Thou suld threep kindnes of Him … and forciblie enter in His kingdom 1630 Rutherford Christ & Doves 10.
He is ay thriping and claiming kindness of us, as if he were the beggar and the poor-man, and we the king 1626–7 Sel. Biog. I 352.
Bot I will quarrell you no moir, for I neither can nor will threap kyndnes upon creaturs 1635 Dickson Wr. 42.
If any will threap love upon God, they shall not be disappointed 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1671) 182.
Love botomed and seated upon the faith of his love … would even claim and thriep kindness upon Christ's strokes

c. To ascribe or attribute (something) to (someone), give (someone) the blame for (something). 1651 Comm. Gen. Assembly III 317.
We thinke it not fair to call such as once wer Papists and scandalous persons by these names after they have satisfied ecclesiasticallie; neither love we to threape upon them an ill course