drawe

English

Verb

drawe (third-person singular simple present drawes, present participle drawing, simple past drewe, past participle drawen)

1. Obsolete spelling of draw.
   • c. 1525, Sallust, “Of the behauour of Iugurth agaynst Metellus […] ”, in Alexander Barclay, transl., Here begynneth the famous cronycle of the warre, which the romayns had agaynſt Iugurth vſurper of the kyngdome of Numidy […] , London: Richarde Pynſon, folio xxxviii, verso:

     This towne was named Vacca / Metellus drewe hym and his army thyder / and ſet garnyſon into the ſame towne.

   • 1549 August 16, The Seconde Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testament Conteynyng the Epistles of S. Paul, and Other the Apostles: Wherunto Is Added a Paraphrase vpon the Reuelacion of S. John, London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche, pages viii–ix:

     For in his .xxxi. Psalme describeth he also this blessedfull state of man, declared now by the gospel, shewyng y it is not geuē & receiued, as due vnto vs for the workes of Moses law, but by the fre goodnes of God, wherby we are moued & drawen to beleue.

   • 1569, Richard Grafton, “Richarde the Seconde”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 351:

     And if any manner of perſon attempted to moue the King to infringe any parte of thys ordynaunce, and that being knowne, for the firſt time, he ſhould be depriued of his goodes and poſſeſſions, and for the ſecond time, to be drawen thorough the Citie, and ſo put to execution as an arrant traytor.

   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iune. Ægloga Sexta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 23, verso:

     But when they came, where thou thy ſkill didſt ſhowe, / They drewe abacke, as halfe with ſhame confound, / Shepheard to ſee, them in theyr art outgoe.

   • 1588, The Moste Profitable and Commendable Science, of Surueying of Landes, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes: […], […] John Windet, for Andrewe Maunsell, […]:

     THE MOSTE PROFITABLE AND COMmendable Science, of Surueying of Landes, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes: drawen and collected by the induſtrie of Valentine Leigh. Whereunto is alſo annexed by the ſame aucthor, a right neceſſarie treatiſe, of the meaſuring of all kindes of Landes, be it Meadow, Paſture, Errable, Wood, Hill, or Dale, and that aſwell by certaine eaſie, and compendious Rules, as alſo by an exact and beneficiall Table, purpoſely drawen and deuiſed for that behalfe.

   • 1592, Thomas Nash[e], Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. […]‎^[1], London: […] [John Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, […], →OCLC:

     These whelpes of the first lytter of gentilitie, these exhalations, drawen vp to the heauen of honour from the dunghill of abiect fortune, haue long been on horsebacke to come riding to your diuellship; but, I know not how, lyke Saint George, they are alwaies mounted but neuer moue.

   • 1651, John Milton, The Life and Reigne of King Charls‎^[2], London: W. Reybold, page 9:

     Now this pestilentiall Summer being well spent, upon the approach of the Winter, and decrease of the Sicknesse, the King […] drawes nearer to the City of London,

Anagrams

• Dewar, Warde, adrew, dewar, wader, wared

Middle English

Verb

drawe

1. Alternative form of drawen