v. Obs. [OE. todrǽfan, f. TO-2 + drǽfan, DREVE v.2, to drive, impel.]
1. trans. To drive asunder or apart; to disperse, separate, scatter.
a. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., III. xviii. [xiv.] (1898), 227 (MS. O.). Hiora heriʓes þær wæs micel ofslaʓen … & eal todræfed.
c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., Matt. xxvi. 31. Þurh þæs hyrdes sleʓe byð seo heord to-dræfed.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 155. He to-drefeð þe þonk þet erre weren to-gedere.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 298. Schrift schent þene deouel … & to-dreaueð his ferde.
13[?]. Guy Warw. (A.), 1483. On þe erþe liþ þi scheld to-dreued, Nouȝt o pece is wiþ oþer bileued.
c. 1400. St. Alexius (Laud 622), 326. And he fer from his frendes to dreued.
2. intr. To disperse, go or fly asunder.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 93. Þi bileafden heo heore tinbrunge and to dreofden ȝeond al middeleard.
c. 1400. R. Gloucester’s Chron. (Rolls), App. XX. 121. (MS. α). His ost to drefde sone her & þer.
c. 1400. Rowland & O., 573. Þat bothe þaire bodies wexen bare, Þaire armours all to-dreues.
