▪ I. † traise, traish, v. Obs.
Forms: α. 4 trais, trayse; pa. pple. 4 traised, traijst, traist, y-treyst, (traysted), 6 Sc. trasit. β. 4 traysch, 5 trays(s)hen, traisshe, tras(s)he, trahysh; pa. pple. 4 traysched, trayscht, etc.
[f. F. traïss-, trahiss-, lengthened stem of trahir to betray: see tray v., and cf. betraise v.]
trans. To betray.
| α a 1300 Cursor M. 15497 Þou sal be traijst lauerd, to night. Ibid. 20042 Ur lauerd crist deied on rode and was traist. 13.. Guy Warw. (A.) 2517 He seyd, y-treyst we ben here. 1320–40 Chron. Eng. (Ritson) 830 Tho come the traitours..That heden traised Edmond. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 61 Machog, þe Scottes kyng, þat wild þorgh traitourie Haf traised Edward þe kyng. c 1350 Will. Palerne 2075 Has þat vntrewe treytour traysted me nouþe. a 1352 Minot Poems vii. 150 Þat daunce with treson was bygun, To trais þe bare with sum fals gyn. a 1375 Joseph Arim. 624, I wol þe nout trayse. 1513 Douglas æneis ix. iv. 8 Drawbriggis befoir the ȝettis vprasit Junct to the wallis, at thai suld nocht be trasit. |
| β c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 5459 Wyst our folk we were þus trayscht [v.r. traist], Hit scholde make þem alle abayscht. c 1400 Rom. Rose 3231 She hath [thee] trasshed, withoute ween. 1412–20 Lydg. Chron. Troy iv. 4562 To traisshe her toun þei hild it no repref. c 1489 Caxton Blanchardyn xlvi. 178 The good lady thenne hering the cursed and false traytours speke, saw wel that she was trahyshed of all poyntes. |
▪ II. traise
obs. form of trace.