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† to-dreve, v. Obs. [OE. todrǽfan, f. to-2 + drǽfan, dreve v.2, to drive, impel.] 1. trans. To drive asunder or apart; to disperse, separate, scatter.
a900tr. Bæda's Hist. iii. xviii. [xiv.] (1898) 227 (MS. O.) Hiora heriᵹes þær wæs micel ofslaᵹen..& eal todræfed. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxvi. 31 Þurh þæs hyrdes sleᵹe byð seo heord to-dræfed. c1175Lamb. Hom. 155 He to-drefeð þe þonk þet erre weren to-gedere. a1225Ancr. R. 298 Schrift schent þene deouel..& to-dreaueð his ferde. 13..Guy Warw. (A.) 1483 On þe erþe liþ þi scheld to-dreued, Nouȝt o pece is wiþ oþer bileued. c1400St. Alexius (Laud 622) 326 And he fer from his frendes to dreued. 2. intr. To disperse, go or fly asunder.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 93 Þi bileafden heo heore timbrunge and to dreofden ȝeond al middeleard. c1400R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) App. XX. 121 (MS. α) His ost to drefde sone her & þer. c1400Rowland & O. 573 Þat bothe þaire bodies wexen bare, Þaire armours all to-dreues. |