▪ I. remede, remeid, n. Now arch.
(rɪˈmiːd)
Forms: 5 remed, remmede, remyde, 5–6 ramed(e, 6 -meid), 5– remeid, (6 -meide, -maid), 6–8 -mead, 6–9 -meed, 4– remede.
[a. OF. remede, remide (12th c.; mod.F. remède), ad. L. remedium remedy. After the 15th c. only a Sc. form.]
Remedy, redress.
remeid of Law (Sc.), the obtaining of justice by appeal from an inferior to a superior court (see Jamieson, s.v.).
| c 1374 Chaucer Troylus iv. 889 He desyreth..With yow to been al night, for to devyse Remede in this. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints ii. (Paul) 38 Quham it bittis, it mon be ded, þar agane is no remed. 1423 Jas. I Kingis Q. cxxxviii, Lat me se Gif thy remede be pertynent to me. 1466 Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 17 Therfore provide by your wisdome such remmede in his behalfe, as you semes best. 1549 Compl. Scot. Prol. 13 Ane desolat prince, distitute of remeide, ande disparit of consolatione. 1585 Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 42 Ane greif to them, who mereits it indeid: Yet for all thir appearis there some remeid. 1649 Bp. Guthrie Mem. (1702) 7 They resolv'd upon Application to his Majesty for remeed. 1711 Ramsay On Maggy Johnstoun xiii, We must..when we're auld return to dust, Without remead. 1785 Burns Prayer to Sc. Repr. xviii, Strive, wi' a' your wit and lear, To get remead. 1828 Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 915 The matter was..past all earthly remede. 1868 G. Macdonald R. Falconer I. 306 He made one remorseful dart after the string,..but it was gone beyond remeid. |
† b. Coining. = remedy n. 4. Obs.
| 1565 Act. Dom. Conc. 22 Dec. in Keith Hist. Ch. Scot. (1734) App. 118 That thair be cunzeit ane Penny of Silvir..of Weicht ane Unce Troce-weicht, with twa Granes of Remeid. 1591 Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV. 620 All the saidis assayis keipit the just fynnes..and past nocht beneth the granis of remeid prescrivit in the same Actis. |
▪ II. remede, remeid, v. Sc. Obs. exc. arch.
(rɪˈmiːd)
Forms: 5 remed, 6–7 remeid, (6 -maid), 7–8 remeed, 8 remead, 5, 9 remede.
[ad. OF. remedier: see remedy v.]
trans. To remedy, cure, redress, amend. Also absol.
| 13.. in Wyntoun Cron. vii. 3625 Succoure Scotland and remede, That stad is in perplexyte. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints vii. (James less) 94 Mannis sonne fra þe ded Is rysine al synnys to remed. Ibid. xxxi. (Eugenia) 284 Scho..prayt hyme parcheryte to remed hyr Infyrmyte. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxii. 56 May nane remeid my melady Sa weill as ȝe. Ibid. lxxiii. 5 Remeid in tyme, and rew nocht al to lait. 1579 Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 155 Without his Hienes petifullie considder thair caise and remeid the same. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. i. 24 It is gude..to kure and to remeid diuers dolouris of the skin. 1640 R. Baillie Canterb. Self-convict. 103 To remeed their wicked follies, the English expressely ordained their communion Table to stand in the body of the church. 1711 Countrey-Man's Let. to Curat 22 They desire him..to remeed the Enormities among the Corrupt Conformists. 1752 E. Erskine Serm. Wks. 1871 III. 480 What would remead these evils? [1847 Emerson Poems, Monadnoc, Those dost succour and remede The shortness of our days.] |