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ˈidleset Sc.
[f. idle a. + (app.) set n., in sense of ‘setting, putting’.]
The condition of being reduced to idleness; want of employment.
1591R. Bruce Serm. Kirk Edin. Y viij a Ane verie slight object or short idleset will enkindle them. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. vi. 329 That na true vertue war able to hurt the body sa mekle as ydleset or ryches. 1830Galt Lawrie T. vii. ii. (1849) 308 Idleset was to me a poor trade. 1856Mrs. Oliphant Katie Stewart 36 Lady Anne hersel is never held in such idleset. |