bedrive

Definitions

1. To drive or toss about; drive out, off, back, or away; defeat.
   archaic, transitive
2. To effect; do; commit; perpetrate; experience.
   archaic, transitive

Examples

“But when every human help⟳ ceased, that they might trust⟳ more to divine help⟳, they then first began to fight⟳ against their foes, who for many years before harried and plundered on them, and they then made a great slaughter among them, and bedrove them home, and had a victory.”

“And every man that standeth here would well bethink him what he hath done and bedriven in his days, he should the better have⟳ patience and pity on Reynart.”

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