adv. Obs. [For o dawe, a contr. form of of dawe, of daȝe, of daȝen, north. of dawes, = OE. of daȝum ‘from days,’ in sense of ‘from life.’ The full phrase ‘of lyues dawe’ is also common. DAW(E, DAY.] Out of life, out of existence. Usually with verbs bring, do: To put out of life, to put to death, kill.

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c. 1250.  Genesis & Ex., 3545. Ðat wod folc ðor Ur of daȝe broȝten.

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c. 1300.  Life of Beket, 2305. This holi man was ibroȝt of Dawe.

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c. 1314.  G. Warw., 53. He wist his folk y-slawe And thurch him brought o liue dawe.

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c. 1325.  E. E. Allit. Poems, A. 282. I trawed my perle don out of daweȝ.

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c. 1330.  Florice & Bl., 634. Sithen he thoughte hem of dawe don.

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c. 1370.  K. Rob. of Cysille, 133, in E. P. P., Hazl. I. 273. I schalle yow teche me for to knawe, And brynge yow fro yowre lyfe dawe.

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c. 1420.  R. Cœur de Lion, 973. Some wolde have hym adawe.

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c. 1425.  Wyntown, Cron., VIII. xxvi. 29. Qwhen þat he wes dune of dawe, Ðai tuk þe Land for outyn awe.

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1447.  Bokenham, Lyvys of Seyntys (1835), 186. He cruelly shuld be brought adawe As a transgressour of hys lawe.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VI. vii. 68. Thou with swerd was slaw, Bereft thy self the life, and brocht of daw.

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