▪ I. † aˈdaw, v.1 Obs.
[f. a- prefix 1 + daw, OE. daȝian to dawn, become day, awake; cf. MHG. er-tagen to dawn. Occ. found as of-daw, prob. by confusion with the adv. adawe or of-dawe.]
1. intr. To wake up, awake, from sleep, swoon, etc.
| c 1300 K. Alis. 2265 Glitoun tho gan furst of-dawen, And his lymes to him drawen. c 1374 Chaucer Troylus iii. 1120 He gan his breeth to drawe, And of his swoun soone aftir that adawe. 1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy i. v. Reioyse wolde these folkes amerous..And efte adawen of their paynes smerte. 1530 Palsgr. 417, I adawe or adawne, as the daye dothe in the mornynge whan the sonne draweth towardes his rysyng. |
2. trans. To awaken, arouse, recall to consciousness. (The earlier instances may be intr.)
| c 1386 Chaucer Merch. T. 1156 Til that he be adawed verrayly. 1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy iii. xxii. Hector..a thousand knightes slowe That neuer were adawed of their sowe. 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys of Seyntys (1835) 56 He thus ageyn was com And wel adawed of his swouwnynge. 1530 Palsgr. 417, I adawe one out of a swounde..He fell in soche a swoune that we had moche a do to adawe hym. |
▪ II. † aˈdaw, v.2 Obs.
[First used by the archaists of the 16th c.; derivation uncertain. Probably the obsolete adverb adawe (see next), in such a phrase as ‘they did him adawe,’ i.e. out of life, to death, was mistaken for a verb infinitive, quasi ‘to quell, crush, put down,’ and this in subsequent use fancied to be a compound of awe, after the analogy of ad-apt, ad-minister, ad-vow; see ad- 2.]
To subdue, daunt.
| 1557 Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 158 He adawth the force of colde. 1596 Spenser F.Q. iii. vii. 13 The sight whereof did greatly him adaw. Ibid. v. vii. 20 Like one adawed with some dreadfull spright. 1621 Bp. R. Montagu Diatribe 85 Being overawed and adawed, as they are. 1654 Ussher Annals vi. (1658) 249 They..being adawed at his constancy and resolution..fled every man of them. |