† unˈtristy a.
[un-1 7.]
Faithless; unreliable.
| 1390 Gower Conf. II. 151 Jelousie of his *untrist Makth that full many an harm arist. c 1400 Comm. Luke i. 19 (MS. Bodl. 143), In beyng doumb he suffriþ þe peyne of vntrist disseruyd. |
| c 1374 Chaucer Troylus iii. 839 Whi hastow mad Troylus to me *vntriste? c 1460 Towneley Myst. xxvii. 210 Me thynk you all vntrist to trow,..All that the prophetys told to you before, it is no trane. |
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 115 A Goddes man seide..þat þere was to comen and *untristed [L. insperatum] a lordschipe fro Fraunce. |
| Ibid. III. 265 Þe firste tweie artes beeþ untrusty [Cotton MS. *vntrysti.] c 1400 Destr. Troy 11973 Þan happit hom to mete The traytor with tene, vntristy Eneas. c 1460 Promp. Parv. (Winch. MS.), On-trysty, idem quod on thende. |