brotherred
English
Alternative forms
- brothered
Etymology
From Middle English brotherrede, from Old English brōþorrǣden (“fellowship, brotherhood, membership of a brotherhood”), equivalent to brother + -red. Same as brotherhood.
Noun
brotherred (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Brotherhood; fraternity.
- 1881, James Fawckner Nicholls, John Taylor, Bristol past and present:
- Mr. and Brothern of the fraternitie or Brotherhed of the Assumption of our blessed Ladie uppon the Bridge of Bristol, which fraternity or brothered is a ffrateraitie or Brothered of Temporal persons not incorporated, [...]
- 1881, James Fawckner Nicholls, John Taylor, Bristol past and present: