Envy, vb. (En′ vy or En vy′) 1) to feel jealousy and mortification at sth.; a) trans.; “to e. a person:” Sonn. 128, 5. As III, 2, 78. Shr. II, 18. Per. II, 3, 26. “to e. sth.:” R2 I, 1, 23. H4A IV, 3, 35. H6B III, 1, 206. R3 I, 3, 75. IV, 1, 64. Cor. I, 1, 116. Cor. I, 1, 116 Per. II, 3, 14. A dependant clause following: “e. much thou hast robbed me of this deed,” Cymb. IV, 2, 158.
b) intr., with at: “I e. at their liberty,” John III, 4, 73. “whose honesty the devil and his disciples only e. at,” H8 V, 3, 112.
2) to show malice and ill-will, particularly by derogatory and calumnious speeches (cf. Envy, subst. def. 2) to rail, to depreciate; a) trans.: such (sounds) “as become a soldier rather than e. you,” Cor. III, 3, 57 (== are intended to depreciate you). b) intr. “for that he has, as much as in him lies, from time to time --ed against the people, seeking means to pluck away their power,” Cor. III, 3, 95.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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