Obs. Forms: 5 enbrayde, 6 en-, embraid, -brayde. Also 6 imbraid, -braied, -brayd. [f. EN- + BRAID v.2; cf. ABRAID v.2] trans. To upbraid, taunt, mock; const. of, with. Also, to reproach one with, ‘cast in one’s teeth.’
1481. Caxton, Orat. G. Flamineus, F vii. in Tully of Old Age. My lytil feelde of the which I am enbrayded by Corneli shal suffise for our dayly lyuelode.
1531. Elyot, Gov. (1580), 16. He was of his enimies embrayded, and called a schoole master.
1540. Morysine, trans. Vives’ Introd. Wysd., Pref. Never imbraidinge benefites gyven and paste.
1548. Hall, Chron. (1809), 265. To imbrayd him with the pleasure that he had done for him.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 205. If ye be friends embraid me not.
1582. Bentley, Mon. Matrones, II. 13. With … words, which I knowe to be foolish … I imbraided thee.
