† scathel, a. Obs.
Forms: 4 scathel, -ylle, 5 skethill, skathil(l, -ell, 6 skatell. β. 5 schatell, schathill. See also scaddle a.
[a. ON. *skǫþull = OHG. scad(h)al, scadel, scatal, -el, Goth. skaþuls:—OTeut. *skaþulo-, f. *skaþ-: see scathe n.]
Injurious, harmful, dangerous. Also absol. as n.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 28773 Almus askes to be wroght o rightwis aght,..for elles vnmedi sal it be, scathel and wrangwise als to þe. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. C. 155 Mony ladde þer forthlep to laue & to Rest, Scopen out þe scaþel water, þat fayn scape wolde. a 1400 Morte Arth. 32 Scathylle Scottlande by skylle he skyftys as hym lykys. Ibid. 1642 That no skathelle in the skroggez skorne vs here-aftyr. c 1400 Destr. Troy 4067 Ascalaphus, a skathil duke & skant mon in wer. Ibid. 13442 There were sones vpposyde,..To Askathes full skete, skethill of hor hond. a 1400–50 Alexander 2992 Þat skapid..skatheles fra all his schathill dukis [Dubl. scapett..schatheles..schatell]. 1515 Scot. Field 342 in Chetham Misc. (1856) II, Those skatell Scotts, that all the skath diden. |