c. 1430. Babees Book, 28. Of old surfaytes abrayde nat thy felawe.
c. 1430. Lydgate, Bochas (1554), VII. iv. 167 b. If the famous prudent olde Caton Had agein me in such caas made abrayd.
c. 1430. Syr Generides, 9335. The king seid Goo hens for drede of more care. [Generides] for that abraiding Waxed wroth toward the king.
1530. Palsgr., 415/1. I abrayde one, I caste one in the tethe of a matter.
1599. Greene, Alphonsus (1861), 231. That thou darst thus abraid me in my land.