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▪ I. † threte, n. Sc. Obs.
In 6 threit, pl. thretis.
Origin and meaning obscure. Occurs app. only in Douglas's æneis, where it is expletive, answering to nothing in the Latin. Referred in Ruddiman's Glossary, 1710, to threat n., and explained as ‘a throng, crowd, haste, speed’.
Jamieson takes it in the first quot. as ‘throng, crowd’ (which does not suit the context); the second and third examples he renders ‘in haste, eagerly’, the fourth ‘in pairs, in couples’. In all the passages we have perhaps strained applications of threat n. sense 2, ‘pressure, etc.’ introduced for the sake of rime.
1513Douglas æneis ii. [x.] ix. 33 Scho..Him towart hir hes brocht, but ony threte. Ibid. v. ii. 117 Sum vthir..the colis hett Wndir the speitis swakkis, to roist in threit The raw spaldis ordanit for the muld meit. Ibid. xii. xii. 141 The rynnyng hund dois hym [the hart] assail in threte Baith with swyft raise and with his questis grete. Ibid. xii. ix. 78 That this Murranus the renis and the thetis Quharwyth hys stedis ȝokkit war in thretis Vndyr the quhelis hes do weltit doun.
▪ II. † threte, v. Obs. rare.
Pa. tense in 5 thret.
[a. ON. þrǽta (þrætta) to quarrel, dispute, wrangle, Sw. träta Da. trættes refl. to quarrel, strive, contest. (See Falk & Torp s.v. Trætte.)]
intr. To dispute, contend; to quarrel, wrangle.
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 560, I hyred þe for a peny a grete, Quy bygynnez þou now to þrete? c1430This World but Vanyte 20 in Hymns Virgin (1867) 83 Þe kinde of childhode y dide also, Wiþ my felawis to fiȝte and þrete. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 7110 Þai were stonyd what þis moght mene, What þai suld do þai thret þaim betwene. 1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 17 So thochtis thretis in thra our breistis ourthwort. [Probably belongs here.] |