Sibʹberidge (3 syl.).
Banns of marriage. (Anglo-Saxon sibbe, alliance; whence the old English word sibrede, relationship, kindred.) (See Gossip.)
“For every man it schuldë drede
And Nameliche in his sibrede.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.