Obs. [Prob. aphetic f. ABRAID v.2, UPBRAID; but as ON. bregða was used in this meaning, it may perhaps be a sense of BRAID v.1]
trans. To upbraid, reproach.
c. 1325. Body & Soul, 257, in Map’s Poems (1841), 343. Thou … me thus breidest of myn un-hap.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 49. Breydyn or vpbreydyn, impropero.
1553. Brende, Q. Curtius, VIII. 8. Thou wilt braid me with the saving of his life.
1562. J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 56. Better dissemble it … Than to broide him with it.
1608. Shaks., Per., I. i. 93. ’Twould ’braid yourself too near for me to tell it.
