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Brother v. World English Historical Dictionary

Brother v. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Brother v. Also 6 Sc. bruder. [f. prec. sb.]

1   1.  trans. To make a brother of; to admit to brotherhood; also, to treat or address as brother.

2 1573.  Sege Edinb. Castel, in Scot. Poems 16th C., II. 289. Thay ar bowit and bruderit in our band.

3 1584.  Fenner, Def. Ministers (1587), 7. Howe can you brother vs thus in euerie line, and deale so vnbrotherlie with vs in euerie sentence?

4 1706.  Farquhar, Recruit. Officer, I. i. No coaxing, no brothering me ’faith.

5 1820.  Scott, Ivanhoe, II. iv. 62. This same motley gentleman thou art so fond to brother.

6 c. 1825.  Beddoes, Sec. Brother, II. ii. Marcello is my brother, I am his, If coming of one mother brother us.

7   2.  To be a brother to. To brother it: to act or behave as a brother.

8 c. 1600.  Chapman, Iliad, XIII. 692. She that brought thee forth not utterly left me Without some portion of thy spirit to make me brother thee.

9 a. 1648.  Ld. Herbert, Life (1826), 327. There remains now but you and I to brother it.

10   Hence Brothering vbl. sb. rare.

11 1818.  Southey, Lett. (1856), III. 97. By … such brothering and sistering he kept up his influence among his people.

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