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c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 2390 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 175 (MED) Wit is hondene he todrouȝ..his flesch atþe laste, pece and oþur al abrod, a-wei fram him he caste.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 9791 (MED) Þe brain orn al abrod in þe pauiment.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xii. 30 He that gadrith nat to gidre with me, scatrith abrood.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 2862 (MED) Þanne schulde he [sc. the plowman] neuer, in vale nor in pleyn..þrowe abrod his greyne.

?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 1883 (MED) Þe wynde fast blawe, Þe thak brennand it blew o brade.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Neh. i. 8 Yf ye transgresse, then wil I scater you abrode amonge the nacions.

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xiii. i. 259 They [sc. houses] stand scattered abroad, each one dwelling in the midst of his owne occupieng.

1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. i. 104 The angry northen wind Will blow these sands like Sibels leaues abroad.

1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. xviii. 260 The nature of this plant is such that if you touch but the cods when the seed is ripe, though you do it neuer so gently, yet will the seeds fly all abroad with violence.

1696 T. Brookhouse Temple Opened 58 The Extrusion of the Poor Reffugies was only an Act of Secretion By Him who has his Fan in his hand, who..dispersed them abroad, not for their Ruine but their Safety.

1759 A. Smith Theory Moral Sentiments ii. §ii. iii. 189 The different members..are..dissipated and scattered abroad by the violence and opposition of their discordant affections.

1778 R. Lowth Isaiah xxviii. 25 Doth not he then scatter the dill, and cast abroad the cummin?

1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. 61 On the following morning the..cocks are thrown abroad in passels.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. x. 155 Then a chance will come, a holiday, When, piece by piece, can one the things abroad display.

1897 H. G. Wells Invisible Man vii. 64 Then came Panic, and scattered them abroad through the village as a gust scatters dead leaves.

1937 H. S. Bennett Life on Eng. Manor iv. 80 This box was called a seed-lip, or hopper, and from it the sower took seed and scattered it abroad with a rhythmic movement of the body.

1974 L. Thorpe tr. Gregory of Tours Hist. of Franks v. 261 The man's relations..cut Silvester's son to pieces and scattered the fragments abroad.

1988 J. J. Graham & J. Tait Shetland Folk Bk. VIII. 44 Daddy takes his straen kishie over his shoulder and throws abroad the clean oat seed.

c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 2039 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 165 (MED) His felawes euerechone heore Armes a-brod caste.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 179 (MED) And he strecche out his armes and hondes abrood.

a1425 Lay Folks' Mass Bk. (Cambr.) (1904) l. 239 (MED) Þe prest..wyll sprede his armes obrade [c1450 Newnh. abrade].

a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) l. 1082 The lyoun was hungry..Abrod [c1450 BL Add. one brede] he spredde alle hys powes.

a1540 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 357/2 Pope Gelasius..appointed that the Priestes should say the Secretes, the Cannon, and the Prefaces with their armes stretched abroad.

1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 50 But the leaues be more spred abroad.

1627 F. Bacon New Atlantis 6 At his coming he did bend to us a little, and put his arms abroad.

1672 J. Davies Anc. Rites Durham 17 A goodly fine Lantern, or Letteron, of Brass..with a great Pelican on the height of it, finely gilt..her wings spread abroad, whereon did lye the Book.

1696 J. Pechey Gen. Treat. Dis. Maids xxi. 126 Being in this posture she must spread her Thighs abroad, folding her Legs a little towards her Buttocks.

1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Ceyx & Alcyone in Fables 372 Where lay the God And slept supine, his Limbs display'd abroad.

1781 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. 24 The locks of the hair are flying abroad in all directions.

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. iv. 84 There was Edith..; her arms abroad—one sleeve pushed up to the shoulder.

1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline i. v. 116 Stretched abroad on the seashore motionless lay his form.

1887 A. Conan Doyle in Beeton's Christmas Ann. 19 His hands were clenched and his arms thrown abroad, while his lower limbs were interlocked.

1912 S. E. White Land of Footprints xv. 190 Before them writhed Sulimani, close to earth, darting irregularly now to right, now to left, wriggling, spreading his arms abroad.

1935 M. Rukeyser Theory of Flight in Coll. Poems (1978) 6 The nights are restless with these dreams of ours in which we cry, fling our arms abroad.