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† deˈboist, ppl. a. (n.) Obs.
Forms: 7 deboist, -oyst; -oysed; -ost(e; -oished, -oisht, -oyshed, -oysht, -oicht.
[By-form of debauched: cf. deboise vb.]
1. = debauched.
1604[see deboistly]. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Pref. Wks. (1653) 18 A general deboist and base kind of habit. 1622F. Markham Bk. War i. viii. 31 Froathy, base and deboysed Creatures. 1626L. Owen Spec. Jesuit. (1629) 63 A very wicked, deboysht, and prophane man. 1639R. Junius Sin Stigmatized 359 (T.) Our debauched drunkards, and deboyshed swearers. a1657W. Bradford Plymouth Plant. ii. (1856) 240 This wicked and deboste crue. 1694Crowne Married Beau iii. 27 Stand off, you base, unworthy, false, deboist man. 1722Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) iii. 217 Knowing him to be a deboist fellow.
2. Damaged. (Cf. debauch v. 4.)
1641Heywood Priest Judge & Patentee, The price of French and Spanish wines are raisd How ever in their worth deboyst and craisd.
3. Used as a n. = debauchee.
1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 21 For one woman that dyed, there were ten men; and the men were the greater deboystes.
Hence deˈboistly adv., deˈboistness.
1604T. Wright Passions ii. iii. §3. 74 A multitude of Passions..breake out debostly. 1628Prynne Love-lockes 34 Licentiousnesse, Deboistnesse, and the like. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal 148 Nero's cruelty and deboich'tnesse. 1671Westm. Drollery 78 Tell me no more that long hair can Argue deboistness in a man. |