mistrystv.
/mɪsˈtrɪst/, /mɪsˈtrʌɪst/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈtrɪst/, /ˌmɪsˈtraɪst/, Scottish English /mɪsˈtrɪst/, /mɪsˈtrʌist/ Scottish and English regional (northern).
1. transitive. To fail to keep an engagement with, to break faith with. Also intransitive (with with).
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a1658 J. Durham Claris Cantici 130 Christ..is never behind His time, He cannot mistryst a believer.
1719 Life J. Sharp 124 Though he sometimes appointed time and place for meeting them, yet he always mistrysted and disappointed them.
1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf iv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 75 Ye'll be gaun yonder, Mr. Patrick; feind o' me will mistryst you for a' my mother says.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xiii. 144 ‘Braw trysts that you'll can keep,’ said Alan. ‘Ye'll just mistryst aince and for a' with the gentry in the bents.’
1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 393 An ill speldron o' a loon that had mistrysted wi' twa lasses already.
1917 D. G. Mitchell Kirk i' Clachan 145 Gin we start oot wi' this Guide He'll ne'er mistryst us.
2. transitive (in passive). To be led astray, bewildered, or perplexed. Now rare.
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1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf iii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 70 It's a braw thing for a man to be out a' day, and frightened—na, I winna say that neither—but mistrysted wi' bogles in the hame coming.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. i. 12 They are sair mistrysted yonder in their Parliament-House about this rubbery o' Mr. Morris.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 111 Mistrysted, frightened, put out of track. ‘I hae been sore mistrysted,’ sorely perplexed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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