Obs. rare. [f. prec.] By-form of BEREAVE: to deprive.
1557. Recorde, Whetst., A iij. To berefte the realme of some singulare commoditie.
1564. Haward, Eutropius, To Rdr. 6. That Tully should … bereft ye Grecians of theyr exactnesse in all sciences.
