v. Obs. Forms: see BURN v.1 [ME., f. TO-2 + brennen, beornen to BURN. So late MHG. zerbrinnen intr.] a. trans. To burn up; to consume or destroy by burning. b. intr. To burn, to be ‘burning hot’: = BURN v.1 3.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter ii. 13. When in schorte his wreth tobrent has he; Þat in him traisted alle seli be.
13[?]. Cursor M., 22921 (Fairf.). If his bodi ware alle tobrint.
1382. Wyclif, Ps. xlv. 10. Armys and sheeldis he shal to-brenne with fyr. Ibid., Jer. xi. 16. To-brend ben alle his busshy places.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., IV. 21. Ffor [= against] sonne and wynde hem make a tegument, Lest thai in this be shake, in that tobrent.
a. 1500. Flower & Leaf, 358. The sonne so fervently Wex hoot, that … the ladies eek to-brent, That they [etc.].
