▪ I. † traist, n. Sc. and north. Obs.
Forms: 4–6 traiste, 5 trayste, treyst, trast, 5–7 traist.
[app. a. ON. *tr{obar}ysti, *treysti (mod. Norw. dial. tr{obar}yste strengthening, strength, firmness), related to ON. traust n., firmness, confidence, security, safety, trust, and to ON. treysta, tr{obar}ysta, traist v. Cf. Gothic trausti covenant. Cognate with trust, trest, trist ns.]
Confidence, trust; assurance felt, received, or given.
| c 1340 Hampole Prose Tr. 18 Puttande all his traiste and his desyre in hym [Ihesu]. a 1400 Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. (1867) 27 Þat we hafe trayste to com thedyre. c 1400 Apol. Loll. 96 Sum tyme man is holpun bi treyst þat he haþ in o þing. 1456 Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 179 He wald geve lytill traist in that sauf condyt. c 1500 Lancelot 1536 To wer on them In trast of victory. 1513 Jas. IV. Let. in Hall Chron., Hen. VIII (1548) 30 Bastard Heron..slewe our warden vnder traist of dayes of metyng for iustice. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. i. (S.T.S.) I. 79 Thair hail traist, and al thair hope was in this opinione. 1678 Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. i. xi. §16 (1699) 67 Where the Party Slain is under the Traist, Credit, Assurance, and power of the Slayer. |
▪ II. traist, a. (adv.) Sc. and north.
Forms: 4 treist, traste, trayste, 4–5 traiste, trayst, trast, 5 treyst, 4–7 traist.
[app. a. ON. treystr, pa. pple. of treysta (OTeut. *traustjan) to make firm or strong, used in the sense of ON. traustr firm, strong, safe, secure, sure, trusty.]
† A. adj.
1. Firm, strong; secure, safe. Obs.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 9883 Þis castel..a-pon þe marche it standes traist, O fede ne dredes it na fraist. |
† 2. Assured, sure, confident, full of trust. Obs.
| c 1300 Cursor M. 17219 (Gött.) Þu mai be ful traist to spede. 1375 Barbour Bruce ix. 381 Þarfor sekir and trast þai war. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxxii. (Iustin) 482 Þe feynd þane Wend he traste wes of þe man. c 1475 Rauf Coilȝear 549 ‘Be thow traist’, said the Coilȝear, ‘man, as I am trew, I will not haist me ane fute faster on the way’. |
3. Trusty, trustworthy; faithful, true. Now poet. arch.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 175 Ȝour wille is euer so gode, & ȝour treuth so treist. c 1330 ― Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8392 Lok þat ȝe be trewe & traist. 1412 in 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. viii. 10 Oure traiste and wele belofit cosyng, Schir William of Douglas. c 1460 Towneley Myst. xxviii. 74, I saide if he nede be-stode to hym shuld none be trastir. c 1461 in Jarrow & Wearmouth (Surtees) 246, I beseke ȝowe send furth a trayst mane. 1501 Douglas Pal. Hon. i. xlix, Constant Lucrece, and traist Penelope. 1535 Stewart Chron. Scot. (Rolls) III. 166 Richt nobill men that war bayth traist & trew. 1620 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 783/1 Our richt traist cowsing and counsellar Thomas Erle of Kellie. 1919 E. Pound Quia Pauper Amavi 11 She has her lover till morn, Till the traist man cry out to warn Them. 1955 ― Classic Anthol. i. 21 Shall no one be traist? Mother of Heaven, Shall no one be traist? |
B. adv. † a. Firmly, securely. † b. Confidently, assuredly. Obs.
| c 1470 Golagros & Gaw. 292 Trou ye full traist, My hecht sall haldin be for baill or for blis. Ibid. 415. |
▪ III. † traist, v. Sc. and north. Obs.
Forms: 3–4 traiste, 4 treiste, 4–5 trayst(e, 4–6 traist, trast. Pa. tense 4–5 trast.
[ME. traist, -en, trayst, a. ON. (OW.Scand.) treysta, tr{obar}ysta (OTeut. *traustjan) to make firm, strong, or safe, to give firmness or security to, to confirm; refl. to make oneself secure, safe, or sure, with dat. or til to rely upon, trust to; f. traustr adj. strong, firm, safe, sure, trusty. Cognate with trust v.: see also trest, trist.]
1. trans. To make secure or safe, to commit in trust; hence refl. to commit oneself with security or confidence, to trust, = sense 2.
| c 1375 Cursor M. 11868 (Fairf.) In quam þat we may traiste vs in. 1456 Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 179 He wald..nocht traist his persone in it. |
2. intr. To trust, have confidence, feel assured. (Const. in, on, of, to, or inf.)
| a 1300 Cursor M. 7491 He traistes al in his aun hand. a 1300 E.E. Psalter cxxiv. 1 Þat traisten in Laverd ilk-on. 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 1366 He may be called witty and wyse, Þat..on þis lyfe here traystes noght. 1375 Barbour Bruce v. 531 Þe king in hym trastit. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxvi. (Nycholas) 538 Trastand thru hym to helpyn be. c 1460 Towneley Myst. xxvii. 47 Thay wold for no tokynyng,..Trast in that trew. 1530 Lyndesay Test. Papyngo 331 Traistyng to chaip that faitale destanie. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. (S.T.S.) II. 385 Quhilk he mekle trasted in. |
b. trans. with simple obj. (? orig. dative), or clause: To trust, have confidence in.
| 1375 Barbour Bruce vii. 179 May I trast the me to valk Till I a litill slepyng tak? c 1470 Henry Wallace i. 86 Ressawide he was and trastyt werray trew. 1473–4 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 49 It wes trastit the Duc of Glosister suld haue cummyn in. c 1500 Lancelot 1129, I traist that neuer more was sen No man in feild more knyghtly hyme conten. |
c. To expect with confidence.
| 1518 in Peebles Burgh Rec. (1872) 46 The said Johne, traisting trubill in the cuntre. |
Hence † traisting vbl. n., trusting, confidence.
| a 1340 Hampole Psalter lxx. 4 A stabile toure, til þe whilke we sall fle and be sykire in traystynge. 1456 Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 244 Thair lycht traisting in men that thai knew nocht. |
▪ IV. traist
pa. pple. of traise v. Obs.; Sc. var. trest, trestle.