† 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.
| a 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iii. xviii. [xiv.] (1898) 227 (MS. O.) Hiora heriᵹes þær wæs micel ofslaᵹen..& eal todræfed. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxvi. 31 Þurh þæs hyrdes sleᵹe byð seo heord to-dræfed. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 155 He to-drefeð þe þonk þet erre weren to-gedere. a 1225 Ancr. 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. c 1400 St. Alexius (Laud 622) 326 And he fer from his frendes to dreued. |
2. intr. To disperse, go or fly asunder.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 93 Þi bileafden heo heore timbrunge and to dreofden ȝeond al middeleard. c 1400 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) App. XX. 121 (MS. α) His ost to drefde sone her & þer. c 1400 Rowland & O. 573 Þat bothe þaire bodies wexen bare, Þaire armours all to-dreues. |