† to-bearv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To carry in different directions; to carry off, take away; also figurative to separate (persons) in feeling, etc.; to part, sunder, set at variance. Also reflexive.
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society > society and the community > dissent > become at variance with [verb (transitive)] > cause (dissension) > set (people) at variance
to-bear971
to cast (in) a bone1498
to set (or fall) at variancec1522
to set by the ears?1566
distract1597
to set outa1610
jarc1615
dissentiate1628
vary1795
971 Blickl. Hom. 95 Þeah þe hie ær eorþe bewrigen hæfde,..oþþe wildeor abiton, oþþe fuglas tobæron.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 386 He is me gecoren fætels, þæt he tobere minne naman ðeodum.
c1320 Cast. Love 522 Þe kynges sone al þis con heren, Hou his sustren hem to-beeren.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2146 Ðo was vnder him ðanne putifar, And his wif ðat hem so to-bar.
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