Obs. [f. prec. sb.] trans. a. To set at enmity. b. To make or treat as a foe or enemy.

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c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 209. Þe deuel … fode þe forme man wið god.

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1596.  Spenser, F. Q., VI. xi. 6. Sith in his powre she was to foe or frend.

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1602.  Warner, Alb. Eng., X. lv. (1612), 245.

        To which our parliament aduis’d our queene, but long in vaine:
So far was she from fooing her that sought her life and Rayne.

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