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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12759 (MED) Men soght til him..To here of his sermon þat maniman broght to resun [Gött. resune].

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccii. 621 The kyng..commaunded me..to gouerne and bringe them to reason.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cl^v Whiche thynges if he deny to dooe, then the confederates certifie hym, that thei shall neuer cease till he be brought to reason.

1602 tr. G. Corrozet Memorable Conceits 2 They guarded him from the power of the Emperour: who in the end being brought to reason and reconciled vnto him, came to doe him reuerence.

1700 W. Penn Let. 2 June in Papers (1986) III. 602 Thou might easily take a Course..to make them more observant and bring the Refractary to reason.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 326 He would sit still, till they, who were over active, would come to reason.

1774 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1876) vi. 384 To bring us entirely to reason and sobriety, let it be observed [etc.].

1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall I. xviii. 323 A little conciliation and steady perseverance on his part might yet succeed in bringing me to reason.

1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxvi. 332 They had failed to bring a recusant clergyman to reason.

1914 E. von Arnim Pastor's Wife xxiii. 297 He would bring her then and there by the shortest possible route to reason.

1989 J. Gillingham Richard Lionheart (ed. 2) 55 How else was their lord to be brought to reason or to arbitration except by ensuring that he could not collect his rents?