1572. R. H., trans. Lauaterus’ Ghostes (1596), 199. If the auncient Fathers had so doone, they had not estrayed so farre from the Apostles simplicitie.
1600. Tourneur, Transf. Met., l. C v. The lambes that sometime did estray.
1615. Daniel, Hymen’s Tri., IV. iii. 56. This nymph one day … Estrayes apart, and leaues her companie.
1660. trans. Amyraldus’ Treat. Relig., II. ix. 289. How could it be that men should so prodigiously neglect the glory of God, unless they were estrayed from their end, since they were made for it?
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 44. One of the sisters led Gallus estraying by Permessus’ streams To th’ Aon mountains.
a. 1864. Hawthorne, Eng. Note-bks. (1879), I. 261. Just estraying a little way.
Hence Estrayed ppl. a., that has strayed. Estraying vbl. sb.
1535. Act 27 Hen. VIII., c. 7 § 5. Estraied cattell claimed and proued by the owners.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia, III. (1622), 310. The sweete touch of that hand seemed to his estrayed powers so heauenly a thing [etc.].
1598. Yong, Diana, 318. But euermore despaire … From former course of minde doth cause estraying.
1620. J. Wilkinson, Treat. Coroners & Sherifes, Crt. Leets, 140 b. And likewise you shal present all such cattel estraied as shall vsually come within your office.
1883. W. R. Williams, in Butler’s Bible-Wk., I. 366. The shepherd seeking his estrayed sheep.
