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c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiv. l. 60 (MED) Þorw his breth bestes wexen and abrode ȝeden.

1496 Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. xxxiii. sig. d.ij^v/1 Yet is he not closed ne bounde, but he gooth abrode as he dyde byfore.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 569/2 I go abrode, as one dothe that gothe out of his chambre after a sicknesse, or gothe out of his house to be sene.

1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? 190 The Romans..will not suffer their Wifes to go abroad, either to Church or any place else.

1725 A. Pope Corr. 15 Oct. (1956) II. 331 Here is Arbuthnot..recover'd from the jaws of death... He goes abroad again, and is more chearful than even Health can make a man.

1785 W. Cowper Epist. to J. Hill in Task 286 Horatio's servant..Overawed Lest he should trespass, begg'd to go abroad.

1816 J. Austen Emma I. xiii. 238 The going abroad in such weather. View more context for this quotation

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xviii. 153 We let their bodies go abroad liberally enough, with smiles and ringlets and pink bonnets to disguise them instead of veils and yakmaks.

1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. (ed. 2) Going abroad, going outside into the open air.

1971 G. M. Fraser Steel Bonnets xlii. 352 Robert Carey got wind of a plot to murder the West March Warden..by..catching him unawares either in his home or as he went abroad.

1513 Lydgate's Troye Bk. (Pynson) iv. xxxiv. sig. y.iv^v/1 Let euery man beware as it is gode Or his counsayle go to ferre abrode.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Micah iv. 3 The tyme wil come, that thy gappes shal be made vp, and the lawe shal go abrode.

1640 Proc. Commissioners Parl. of Scotl. 88 in W. Kerr True Representation Proc. Kingdome of Scotl. Informations went abroad in other nations, to the prejudice of us and our Cause.

a1719 J. Addison Evid. Christian Relig. (1733) 3 The report which had gone abroad concerning a life so full of miracles.

1820 C. Jeffreys Van Dieman's Land 167 An idea has gone abroad that the permission of Government is necessary to settle in the colony.

1888 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed Ladies' Gallery II. viii. 125 My fame had gone abroad in London.

1915 E. B. Holt Freudian Wish p. vi The idea has gone abroad that the term ‘Freudian’ is somehow synonymous with ‘sexual’.

1999 V. A. McConnell Arsenic under Elms vii. 68 A rumor had gone abroad that tickets would be issued for entrance to the trial.

1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlviii. 40 It tuggis in hoilis, and gais abbreid.

1641 J. Wadsworth in tr. European Mercury Ep. Ded. sig. A2^v The work is necessary for all this Kingdome, rich or poore, traveller or not traveller, wherein they may al benefit themselves, it serving for a guide to those that go abroad, and a Map for those at home.

1671 E. Leigh 3 Diatribes 6 He should be first well acquainted with his own Country, before he go abroad.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 5 I resolv'd not to think of going abroad any more, but to settle at home.

1786 H. L. Piozzi Anecd. Johnson 168 His desire to go abroad, particularly to see Italy, was very great.

1855 Harper's Mag. June 91/2 We have no need to go abroad to study ethnology. A walk through the streets of any great city will show us specimens of every human variety known.

1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch (1872) I. i. ix. 137 And now he wants to go abroad again.

1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer ii. iii. 172 I'm going abroad; I'm going to do foreign correspondent work for the A.P.

1987 Cape Cod Life Apr. 112/3 Resika went abroad, traveling to Paris and Rome, and finally settling in Venice.

2000 D. Yue tr. X. Xi Flying Carpet ii. 197 These nice decent boys, they go abroad to study, and then come back and act like idiots.