▪ I. † misˈtrist, n. Obs.
Also 5 mystrest.
[mis- 4.]
= mistrust n.
| 1382 Wyclif Prol. Bible iii. 4 God..punisshide hem..for grucchyng and mystriste to Goddis word. c 1440 Generydes 1673 In hym he hadde no maner of mystrest. 1483 Cath. Angl. 241/2 A Mistriste, desperacio, diffidencia. 15.. Guistard & Sismond ii. (1597) C 3 b, And when they wer in comin, they put no mistrist. |
▪ II. † misˈtrist, v. Obs. or dial.
Also 4–5 -triste, 4–6 -traist, 5 mystrast, 5–6 -trest, 9 -thrist.
[mis-1 7.]
= mistrust v.
| a. trans. c 1386 Chaucer Pard. Prol. 41 And never shal he more his wyf mistriste. c 1440 Generydes 1399 It grevith me full soore, That ye shuld me mystrest by eny waye. c 1460 Sir R. Ros La Belle Dame 746 Sum man say how he mystristed is on sum partyse. 1552 Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 41 And quhy suld we nocht put all our traist..in the mercy of God?.. Suerly we suld nocht mistrest him. |
| b. intr. 1390 Gower Conf. I. 149 Sche wissheth forto ben unbore, Er that hire fader so mistriste To tellen hire of that he wiste. c 1400 Song Roland 186 ‘Sistir son’, said the king, ‘sore I mystrist’. c 1470 Henry Wallace ix. 1623 Ner the castell he drew thaim prewaly In till a schaw; Sotheroun mystraistyt nocht. 1567 Gude & Godlie B. 160 At thy deith thow did mistraist, And sa fell in dispair. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 356 Quhom the deith of Makintosche causet gretlie to defecte,..mistraisting of his actioune. 1877 Holderness Gloss., Misthrist, to mistrust or doubt. |