v. Forms: 1 asc(e)amian, 3 ascam-en, 4–6 aschame, 6 asshame, (Sc. eschame), 4– ashame. [f. A- pref. 1 + OE. sc(e)amian to SHAME. Cf. MHG. erschamen, mod.G. erschämen.]
† 1. intr. To feel shame, to be ashamed. (In quot. 1305 Aschame may be imperative, or perh. sb. formed on the verb.) Obs.; but see next word.
c. 1000. Ps. lxviii. 8 (Bosw.). Ná ascamien on me.
c. 1305. E. E. Poems (1862), 69. Hi suede & cride on hem aschame.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, II. (1822), 177. Thay eschamit that thair ennemies suld departe … unpunist.
1566. Knox, Hist. Ref., Wks. 1846, I. 397. Sche eschame nott to sett out ane Proclamatioun, in this forme.
2. trans. To put to shame, to make ashamed.
1591. P. Adamson, in De Foe, Hist. Ch. Scot., Add. 51. Neither is there any Thing that more ashameth me.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 814. The Graund master with this answere doth … ashame them.
1826. E. Irving, Babylon, II. VIII. 291. He raiseth up … the foolish to ashame the wise.
