c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 1680 (MED) He wyll gyfe a rekenyng..That all þe ryche sall repennte, þat to Rome langez, Or þe rereage be requit of rentez þat he claymez.

1529 T. Wolsey in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. (1880) 11 So I shal not fayle to requyte your kyndnes.

1573 I. Whitney Sweet Nosgay sig. D.i^v Nature dyd you bynde: To doo mee good: and to requight, hath nature mee inclynde.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Ded. sig. A2 There be two whose benifites to vs can neuer be requited: God, and our parents.

1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 55 So the Athenians did make free of their citie..all the Rhodians: which the Rhodians requited with like curtesie.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xlvi. 107 They requited Christs passion, and died for him who suffered for them.

1683 J. Gadbury in G. Wharton Wks. Pref. He served his Soveraign faithfully, the King as bountifully requites his Services.

1722 E. Thomas Misc. Poems 76 Eternal God of Love, and Grace! How can we this thy wond'rous Act requite.

1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator II. 47 Many a one has requited some trifling Obligation with another of the greatest consequence.

1778 W. Cowper Let. 1 Jan. (1979) I. 275 The Pleasure of requiting an Obligation has always been out of my Reach.

1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci ii. ii. 30 Requiting years of care with contumely.

1854 T. B. Macaulay Biogr. (1867) 16 His servility was requited with cold contempt.

1886 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. IX. cmxxxix. 161 When I visited thee in thy hammam, thou entreatedst me honorably, and I will requite thee thy hospitality to me by setting thee free.

1919 Outing Mar. 314/1 How Jackson requited their aid will be seen in the sequel.

1938 E. Waugh Scoop 56 ‘It was the act of..a fellow Englishman,’ said the little man simply. ‘I hope that one day I shall have the opportunity of requiting it.’

1987 Nature 16 July 188/1 The decision of the British Midland Bank..to set aside an extra £915 million in respect of overseas loans unlikely to be requited.

1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c.15 in Statutes of Realm (1817) III. 334 The great and benevolent myndes of his saide subiectes largely and many tymes approved towards his Highnes, & specially in there Convocacion & Synode now presently beyng in the Chapyter House of the Monastery of Westminster by correspondence of gratitude to them to be requited.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxv I am fully determined to requite your Prince with lyke thankefulnes.

1584 R. Greene Gwydonius f. 37 I cannot be so curteous as to requight thee for thy paines.

1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. E I am so poore to requite you, you must looke for nothing but thankes of me.

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. vi. 1 This place, to which Aristotle ow'd his birth, he afterwards requited with extraordinary Gratitude.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 68 I was as well able to requite him for a large Present as he was to make it.

1750 J. Mayhew Disc. Submission 14 This being their business and duty, it is but reasonable, that they should be requited for their care and diligence.

1790 W. Cowper On Receipt Mother's Picture 86 I should ill requite thee to constrain Thy unbounded spirit into bonds again.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xii. 265 We have enough to pay our debts, let folks say what they will, and requiting you is one of the foremost.

1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 163 [He] Expects from him some tale or minstrel-lay, And afterward requites him with the like.

1931 J. Gavorse Suetonius' Lives Twelve Caesars i. 39 If he had been helped in defending his honor by brigands and cutthroats, he would have requited even such men in the same way.

1988 J. Matthews & B. Stewart Warriors of Christendom (BNC) 86 Pray to God for me, that he may give me strength to destroy all the Pagans, and to win enough from them to requite my friends therewith.

1630 W. Davenant Cruell Brother iv. i. sig. H^v Imployments noble doe requite themselues.

1715 A. Pope Temple of Fame 32 To conceal from Sight Those Acts of Goodness, which themselves requite.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. ii. 42 To have saved you requites itself.

?1864 E. Dickinson Let. in M. D. Bianchi Life & Lett. (1971) ii. 254 Dear Friend,—How hard to thank you—but the large heart requites itself.

1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iv. xiv. f. cxix^v/2 Cryste and hys holy appostles, exhorte euery man to pacyence and sufferaunce, wythoute requytynge of an euyll dede.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. viii. f. 131 With so gentell a reuenge requitynge thingratitude of hym.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. vi. sig. F^v Let me this craue,..That first I may that wrong to him requite . View more context for this quotation

1611 Bible (King James) Gen. l. 15 Ioseph..will certainely requite vs all the euill which we did vnto him. View more context for this quotation

1611 Bible (King James) Jer. li. 56 The Lord God of recompenses shall surely requite . View more context for this quotation

1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. vi. 153 To requite their invectives, he made the statutes of Provisoes.

1723 W. Lowth Comm. Ezekiel (xxv. 14) 200 The Jews..shall requite the wrongs they have received by subduing Idumea.

1767 B. Thornton Miser 257 These Requite the wrong by slacking of their duty.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury lxv, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 316 I will requite..His cruel threat.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §6. 409 Drake..had requited the wrongs inflicted by the Inquisition on English seamen.

1915 C. E. Whitmore Supernatural in Trag. i. 29 The Gods requite the wrongs of their servants by sending against the transgressors the late-avenging Erinys.

1984 B. O. Long 1 Kings (xx. 1–43) 208 A prophet..confronts the king and announces divine punishment, as though to requite the dastardly deed.

1534 G. Joye tr. U. Zwingli Dauids Psalter f. 62 Al my enimes come runninge togither agenst me, and thei take euyl counsail agenst me... Thou therfore lorde haue mercye on me: and restore me that I maye requyte them.

a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. E^v Not so much for the iniury..hath Faustus worthily requited this iniurious knight.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiii. 60 Hee payes vs shot for shot; Well, wee shall requite him.

1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon viii. 47 It is hard when they come to accuse us of blood guiltiness, I could requite him with a black list of murthers and Massacres.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 38 He but requites me for his own misdeed.

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 146 To give a man goss, to requite for an injury, to beat, or kill him.

1866 C. M. Yonge Cameos lxxvii, in Monthly Packet June 489 The lady had the last word, but was requited with a blow.

1916 W. S. Fox Mythology All Races: Greek & Rom. I. i. vii. 107 Admetos forgot to give victims to Artemis, who, to requite him, filled his bridal chamber with serpents.

1991 G. W. Trompf Melanesian Relig. iii. 62 If one has more than requited the enemy, it is time to cease hostilities.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vii. iii. 669 The Indians..slew many Tartars, who could not see to requite themselues thorow the smoke.

1781 tr. G.-T.-F. Raynal Revol. of Amer. 53 The insolence of subaltern tyrants, who, tired, in their own country, with obeying laws, come to requite themselves, in a new world, by the exercise of an arbitrary power.

1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) ii. i. 55 The doubly felon [shall]..Requite himself for his most just expulsion.

1894 Law Times 22 Dec. 567/2 The person wronged, who has lost his only and peculiar remedy..by lapse of time, cannot requite himself by usurping against his wrongdoer by way of retaliation.

1914 J. Hawthorne Subterranean Brotherhood 122 To requite himself upon defenseless convicts for the kicking-out bestowed upon himself by the community.

1534 J. Heywood Play of Loue sig. B.i^v My loue is requyted so louyngly.

1567 J. Pikerying Horestes sig. Ciij And he requight her loue a gayne, Most faythfullye.

1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina i. 48 We may conceive that no man is so distracted, as to love that which cannot requite his love nor be sensible of it.

1768 Unexpected Wedding xxv. 151 Perhaps she condescends to requite his passion.

1791 J. West Misc. Poems 59 I promis'd your love to requite.

1824 C. G. Garnett Night before Bridal 175 The love I would requite meets but the boon Of withering sorrow that o'erflows my heart.

1875 Boys of Eng. 6 Aug. 163/1 But you will requite my love, as you promised?

1907 T. H. S. Escott Society Country House vii. 201 The doomed man requited the fraternal hatred.

1997 Daily Tel. 3 Nov. 14/1 A girl he went to school with and secretly adored but who did not requite his love.

a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Aiv^v If I speake truth, and..For graunt of life requite thee large amendes.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. ii. f. 7^v They serue them with lyke sause, requitinge deathe for deathe.

1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 779 They are iustified freely, because working nothing, and requiting nothing, they are iustified by onely faith.

1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §60. 296 In case of talio, or requiting like for like.

a1646 J. Burroughs Excellency of Holy Courage in Evil Times (1661) v. 26 If authority should deal never so hardly with you,..requite good for evil, and pray for those that persecute you.

1731 E. Thomas Pylades & Corinna 118 Now would I willingly requite your City News with some Country Occurrences.

1748 tr. N. A. Pluche Spectacle de la Nature VI. vi. 125 They are both unjust to claim to themselves the Fruits of the Sweat and Talents of others, without requiting Toil for Toil and Skill for Skill.

1848 H. F. Brooks Victories Sutlej 34 Out on thy black, thy base ingratitude, Thou Austrian race, requiting ill for good.

1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ II. xxxvi. 71 To requite like with like was assumed as both just and righteous.

a1907 J. Adams Relig. Teachers Greece (1908) iv. 75 Hesiod regards it as hardly less incumbent on the virtuous man to requite evil for evil than to return good for good.

1999 U. Jung & W. Schatzberg Beyond Caligari ii. 45 God will grant him his wish, but only under the condition that he find human beings who will requite good for evil deeds.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xxi. 102 b Jesus..requited their question with an other.

1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 505 Nowe might I..requite your tenne differences, more than with twice tenne likenesses of your Images and theirs, to proue them fools both.

a1742 S. Weston Sermons (1747) II. xviii. 409 When he, in his Turn, had requited their Question by another concerning Christ the Son of David, the Contention ends..in their publick Defeat and Shame.

1847 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 287 Having first requited his question with another.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. x. sig. K4 They him saluted standing far afore; Who well them greeting, humbly did requight.

1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 587 Lowly they him saluted in meeke wise; But he..scarce vouchsafte them to requite.

1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. v. ix. f. 205 He ran to her, and saluted her with most humble reuerence. Shee in all modest and gracious manner, requited him with the like salutations.

1614 E. Grimeston tr. P. Matthieu Hist. Lewis XI xi. 136 King Charles the sixth requited this visite at New-yeares-tide in the yeare 1390.

a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 97 I spent my Time much in the visitts of the Princese,..who did euer punctually requite my Uisitts.