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▪ I. † misˈtrow, n. Obs.
Also 4 -tru(n, -trou(n, -trouȝ.
[f. next. For the form mistrun cf. the verb.]
Mistrust, suspicion.
a1300Cursor M. 8433 And þat þou be noght in mistru, Þar-til mak i þe here a wou. Ibid. 9261 He sal find, withvten mistruns, Sexti hale generacions. Ibid. 15354 Ilkan Of oþer had mistrun [rime resun]. c1350Will. Palerne 3314 Swiche mistrowe had meliors for þei so moche him preised. c1400Rule St. Benet (Prose) 19 Yef it sua bi-tide, þat any falle in mis-trouȝ; þan sal scho pray gerne to god.
▪ II. † misˈtrow, v. north. Obs.
Also 4 -tru(n, -tro(u)n, -trou(e, -trau, -traw(e, -treu.
[ad. ON. mistrúa, f. mis- mis-1 + trúa (see trow v.).
The form mistrun in Cursor Mundi was app. orig. used for the purposes of rime (perhaps under the influence of ON. mistrúnaðr disbelief), but the n seems to have been afterwards taken as part of the stem: cf. prec. n.]
1. trans. To disbelieve (a person); to have no faith or confidence in.
a1225Ancr. R. 68 For þi þe treowe is misleued [MS. T. mistrowet], & þe sakelease ofte bilowen, uor wone of witnesse. a1300Cursor M. 3651 Þat he þe mai þe less mistru [Gött. mistrau, Fairf. mistraw] þou sal sai þou ert esau. 13..Ibid. 17958 (Gött.) His auen sun sal he send dune In erde, þat mani sal mistron. c1450Merlin 21 ‘Yef this be so’, quod the Iuge, ‘neuer shall I mystrowe the’. 1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xv. vi, The fader..belived the lesyng, which was full of iniquyte, & mistrowed hys son.
2. To suspect (a person) of (a misdeed).
1375Barbour Bruce x. 327 Thai mystrowit hym of tratory.
3. To disbelieve (a thing). Also with clause.
a1300Cursor M. 22795 Bot mistrou [Edinb. mistrun] þat, es na nede. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xl. (Ninian) 1303 Mystrowand þat I mocht helpe þe ocht.
4. intr. To be unbelieving, not to believe (in); to be doubtful (of).
a1300Cursor M. 13595 Þe maisters Iuus þan bigan To mistru o þis sinful seli man [Fairf. mistrowne queþer þis sely man, queþer be fore blinde had he bene]. Ibid. 17402 Yee ar þe folk þat ai mistruus. Ibid. 22868 Vte of all skil it es,..For to mistru in godds might. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 368 Þe vigile of Baptist telliþ how Gabriel bihiȝte him, and þis storie telliþ how Zacarie mistrowide.
Hence † misˈtrowing vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also † misˈtrowable, † misˈtrowful adjs., unbelieving; † misˈtrower, an unbeliever.
a1300Cursor M. 16643 Yee foles mistruand folk. Ibid. 18673 To frest if þai in trouth war tru, þair mistruing [Gött. mistrouning, Fairf. mistrowning] for to misprais. Ibid. 21203 Lucas..þe mistruand he tok to teche. 1375Barbour Bruce x. 329 For that ilk mystrowing, Thai..put in presoun. 1382Wyclif Isa. lxv. 2, I spredde out myn hondis al dai to a puple mystrouful [1388 vnbileueful, Vulg. incredulum]. ― Bar. i. 19 We weren mystrowable [1388 vnbileueful, Vulg. incredibiles] to the Lord oure God. 1390Gower Conf. III. 56 For espiaile and mistrowinges They dede thanne suche thinges. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 89 May men move were agaynis the Sarrazenis or othir mistrowaris. Ibid. 103 The Sarazenis or othir mistrowand folk. |