Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To rouse; awake; upbraid.
- To awake; start.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Alternative form of
abread . - verb transitive, obsolete To
upbraid .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I believe the clay coated board is so that you can incise or abraid through the clay to expose a white surface for fine detail, like scratchboard or sgraffito.
U of T Biomedical Communication James Gurney 2009
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And when he espied that squire, therewith he abraid and brake himself loose, and took his sword in his hand, and ran to have slain the squire.
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Beaumains heard her say so, he abraid up with a great might and gat him upon his feet, and lightly he leapt to his sword and gripped it in his hand, and doubled his pace unto the Red Knight, and there they fought a new battle together.
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I strove again, then, to escape, pulling against the bonds, trying to abraid them against the back of the blade.
Guardsman Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1981
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When Sir Beaumains heard her say so, he abraid up with a great might and gat him upon his feet, and lightly he leapt to his sword and gripped it in his hand, and doubled his pace unto the Red Knight, and there they fought a new battle together.
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And when he espied that squire, therewith he abraid and brake himself loose, and took his sword in his hand, and ran to have slain the squire.
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Then the courage came into his body, and with a great might he abraid upon his feet, and smote the black and yellow knight upon the helm by an overstroke so fierce that the sword sheared away the third part of his head, as it had been a rotten cheese.
The Blue Flower 1902
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Then the courage came into his body, and with a great might he abraid upon his feet, and smote the black and yellow knight upon the helm by an overstroke so fierce that the sword sheared away the third part of his head, as it had been a rotten cheese.
The Blue Flower Henry Van Dyke 1892
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Question: If KKKristian people are of such a low intellect and are not capable of figuring out how to get out of this mess they believe in, is it right for me to abraid them for something they weren't born with (enough intelligence) to be 'able' to overcome?
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I think he is going to be OK, "she says, friendly and smiley, her long hair plaited in abraid on one side of her head.
Gammerstang commented on the word abraid
(verb) - (1) To rise on the stomach with a degree of nausea; applied to articles of diet which prove disagreeable to the taste or difficult of digestion. --John Brockett's Glossary of North Country Words, 1825 (2) An appetite to eate or drynke mylke, to the extent that it shal not arise or abraid in the stomake. --Sir Thomas Elyot's The Castel of Helth, 1539
April 22, 2018