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▪ I. † straught, a. Obs.
[Aphetic f. distraught a.]
Distraught, out of one's mind. Also, bereft of (one's wits, mind).
a1529Skelton Agst. Ven. Tongues Wks. 1843 I. 133 My scoles are not for vnthriftes vntaught, For frantick faitours half mad and half straught. 1530Palsgr. 429/2, I am straught, je suis enragé. He is straught, il est enragé. 1566Painter Pal. Pleas. (1569) I. 147 He seemed rather to bee a man straught..than lyke one that had hys wittes. 1566Drant Horace, Sat. i. vi. D v b, The moste of men, wil thincke me straughte of witte. 1567Golding Ovid's Met. vi. (1593) 150 Betweene his duskie wings he caught Orithya straught for feare. 1579–80North Plutarch, Agesilaus (1595) 668 Seely women also..ranne vp and downe, as straught of their wits. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. vii. xi. 144 Being now straught of mind, desperate, and a verie foole. c1600Day Begg. Bednall Gr. iv. i. (1881) 72 Stumbling? what! stumbling? I think the fellow be straught.
Hence † ˈstraughtness, ˈstraughtedness.
1530Palsgr. 277/1 Straugh[t]nesse madnesse, amence. 1552Huloet, Strawghtnes of the mynd by reason of fear, panicus. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xxviii. 979/2 For vntill God haue brought vs to this straughtednesse, we be altogether blockish. [Fr. Car iusques à tant que Dieu nous ait amenez à ceste furie, nous sommes stupides du tout.]
▪ II. straught
see straight a. and v., stretch v. |