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.
c. 1250. Genesis & Ex., 3545. Ðat wod folc ðor Ur of daȝe broȝten.
c. 1300. Life of Beket, 2305. This holi man was ibroȝt of Dawe.
c. 1314. G. Warw., 53. He wist his folk y-slawe And thurch him brought o liue dawe.
c. 1325. E. E. Allit. Poems, A. 282. I trawed my perle don out of daweȝ.
c. 1330. Florice & Bl., 634. Sithen he thoughte hem of dawe don.
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.
c. 1420. R. Cœur de Lion, 973. Some wolde have hym adawe.
c. 1425. Wyntown, Cron., VIII. xxvi. 29. Qwhen þat he wes dune of dawe, Ðai tuk þe Land for outyn awe.
1447. Bokenham, Lyvys of Seyntys (1835), 186. He cruelly shuld be brought adawe As a transgressour of hys lawe.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VI. vii. 68. Thou with swerd was slaw, Bereft thy self the life, and brocht of daw.