v. Obs. 4–5; also eschaufe, achauf(fe; esp. in pple. achaufed, achauffed. [:—earlier ESCHAUFE, a. OFr. eschaufe-r (mod. échauffe-r) to heat; f. es:—L. ex out, extremely + chaufe-r:—late L. *calefā-re for calefac-ĕre to heat, warm, f. calēre to be hot + facĕre to make. See A- pref. 9.] To heat, to warm; also fig. to kindle anyone’s wrath, to heat with passion, to chafe.
c. 1325. E. E. Allit. Poems, B. 1143. His wrath is achaufed.
c. 1340. Gawayne & Gr. Knt., 883. He sete in þat sette semlych ryche, & achaufed hym.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boethius, 22. Whan þe sterre sirius eschaufeþ hym.
c. 1450. Lonelich, Grail, xxiii. 507. Whanne cold thing a-chawfed is owht, Anon to red colour it is i-browht.
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., ccxxxiv. 256. Prynce Edward was sore achafed and greued. Ibid. (c. 1490), Ovid, Metam., X. vi. Grete hete, whereof the ground was sore achauffid.
