Sentence:  For Cassius is aweary of the world; / Hated by one he loves; <WSD>braved</WSD> by his brother; / Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed, / Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote, / To cast into my teeth. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.