Meaning of make away | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To depart, leave; to make off.
   intransitive, obsolete
2. To destroy.
   obsolete, transitive
3. To kill.
   obsolete, transitive
4. To get rid of, dispose of.
   obsolete, transitive
5. To kill oneself, commit suicide.
   obsolete, reflexive

Examples

“By him that dide for me, I wil not dine, Till I haue ſeene thee hangd or made away.”

“If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away.”

“‘Will you,’ said he, ‘on your honour, let me see them uncurtailed, and not offer to make them away; no, not a single paper?’”

“the people impatient of so many changes of fortune, tooke such a resolution unto death, that I have heard my father say, he kept accompt of five and twentie chiefe housholders, that in one weeke made them-selves away[…].”

“Hostratus the friar took that book which Reuchlin had written against him, under the name of Epist. obscurorum vivorum, so to heart, that for shame and grief he made away himself.”

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