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† aˈret, aˈrett(e, v. Obs.
4–7; also 5–7 arret(te, 5 arect, 5–6 arrect.
[a. OF. arete-r, aretter, f. à to + reter (Pr. and OSp. reptar):—L. reputā-re to count, reckon: see repute. After 1400 erroneously latinized (in England) as arrectāre, as if connected with rectum, whence the common 15–16th c. spelling arect, arrect.]
1. trans. To reckon, count; also with compl.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 726, I praie you..That ye ne arette [v.r. ret(te] it not my vilanie. 1388Wyclif Luke xxii. 37 He is arettid [1382 demyd] with wickid men. c1400Apol. Loll. 26 We arettid Him as smitun of God & lafte. c1430Lydg. Bochas ii. Prol., They arect it fortunes variaunce. 1470–85Malory Arthur (1634) Prol., In hym..myght wel be aretted grete folye.
2. trans. To reckon to the credit or debit of a person;
a. in a good or neutral sense: To impute, ascribe, attribute to.
c1340Hampole Prose Tr. 31 Arett all thi gude dedis sothefastely to Hyme. c1380Wyclif Pater Noster Sel. Wks. III. 107 It was aretted to him into riȝtwysnesse. c1430Life St. Kath. (1884) 47 Godhed ys not to be aretted to suche thynges þat are sette vnder þe disposicion of God. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) i. xxi. 57/1 All the goodnesse sholde be arected to the fader & to the moder, & not to god. 1549Chaloner Erasm. Moriæ Enc. F ij b, It is arrected for a great praise and charitable kyndnesse unto theim.
b. chiefly, in a bad sense: To lay to the charge of, impute as a fault to, charge upon.
1388Wyclif 1 Chron. xxi. 3 This thing, that schal be arettid in to synne to Israel. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋506 He that aretteth vpon god, or blameth god, of thyng of which he is hym self gilty. 1430Lydg. Chron. Troy i. vi, Lest men thy death arected unto me. 1477Caxton Dictes 147 Yf they fynde ony faulte tarette it to Socrates and not to me. 1574tr. Littleton's Tenures 122 b, No follye maye bee areted to him beeynge within age. 1602Speght Chaucer's Wks. 3, I rather aret it to the negligence and rape of Adam Scriuener, that I may speake as Chaucer doth.
3. To charge, accuse, or indict a person (of). [So commonly in OF.]
1375Barbour Bruce xix. 20 Schir dauid the brechyne Wes of this deid arettit syne. 1641Termes de la Ley 27 Arretted is hee that is convented before any Judge, and charged with a Crime. [So in Blount Law Dict. 1691.]
b. intr. To allege. (pseudo-archaic.)
a1643W. Cartwright Ordinary in Dodsley O.P. (1780) X. 236, I do arret thou shalt acquainted bin With nymphs and fauns and hamadryades.
¶ To commit a charge to, entrust, deliver. (A false use of Spenser's, due to misunderstanding the obs. arrett to the charge of in 2 b; imitated by others.)
1596Spenser F.Q. ii. viii. 8 The charge, which God doth unto me arrett, Of his deare safety I to thee commend. 1625A. Gill Sacr. Philos. ii. 133 When God had created man, and arretted the charge of him and his posteritie to the Angels. |