todrive

verb

todrive

verb

Etymology From Middle English todriven, from Old English tōdrīfan (“to drive away, repel”), from Proto-Germanic *tōdrībaną (“to drive apart”), equivalent to to- + drive. Cognate with Old Frisian todrīva, Middle High German zetrīben (“to drive asunder”).

Ambitransitive, Obsolete To scatter.

Swift was the flight todriven; The Hord lord singed houses.1895, Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga Library:

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