Obs. exc. dial. Also 6 ob-, 7 ubbray. [Erroneous back-formation from upbrayd, obs. pa. t. of UPBRAID v.]
1. = UPBRAID v. 1, 2.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osorius, 337. I my selfe have heard the Jewes obbraying us christians with the same faults.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., II. iv. 45. Vile knight, That knights and knighthood doest with shame vpbray.
1602. W. Basse, Sword & Buckler, lxi. (1893), 25. You needlesly ubbray our haire.
1642. H. More, Song of Soul, I. ii. 27. The hearts do ne’re agree But felly one another do upbray.
1898. R. Blakeborough, Wit, etc. N. Riding Yorks., 466.
† 2. = UPBRAID v. 5. Obs.–1
a. 1600. in Sidney’s Arcadia, etc. (1922), II. 368. Yet not of women judginge as he sayd. But first with rage, his rage on them [he] upbrayde.
† 3. = UPBRAID v. 6. Obs.–1
1598. Marston, Sco. Villanie, III. x. Vpbray’d by Capons greace, consumed quite By eating stewes, that waste the better spright.
Hence Upbraying vbl. sb.
1585. Parsons, Chr. Exerc., I. v. 45. Consider the intollerable vpbraying of the wicked infernal spirits.
