[f. BEREAVE.]
1. Forcibly deprived, robbed, having lost the possession or use of; void of.
1586. T. Bright, A Treatise of Melancholie, xvii. 105. Man transported with passion is utterly bereft of advisement.
1596. Shaks., Tam. Shr., V. ii. 143. A woman mou’d, is like a fountaine troubled … thicke, bereft of beautie.
1699. Pomfret, Love triumph. over Reason, 194. Not quite bereit Of sense, tho’ very small remains were left.
1858. J. Martineau, Stud. Chr., 108. A pinched and anxious mind bereft of power.
† 2. Taken away, removed, quite gone. Obs.
1531. Elyot, Gov., III. xxiii. Deade or birefte from the minde.
3. Deprived of a near relation, BEREAVED. rare.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth. The helpless and bereft father.
