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▪ I. tryst, n. Chiefly Sc. before 19th c.|traɪst|
Also 4–5 triste, 4–9 trist, (6 treste, tryist), 6–9 tryste.
[Originally the same word as triste, trist n.1 (in which the i was in ME. long or short). The sense seems to be generalized from that of ‘appointed station in hunting’: cf. trist n.2 and the OF. and med.L. words there mentioned. The sense sometimes corresponds to some extent with that of truce.]
1. A mutual appointment, agreement, engagement, covenant. Now rare or Obs. exc. as in 2.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxvi. (Nycholas) 236 Þai sailyt..Quhare-to þare tryst wes mad[e], And þare þe quhet deliueryt hale. 1570Satir. Poems Reform. xix. 90 Hudge is ȝour fais..With Ithand trystis contractand vp new bandis To bring ȝow to schame and confusioun. 1635Jackson Creed viii. xii. §9 A captaine..being surprised by the subtilty of his enemy, whom hee had trusted too farre upon a tryste of parly. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1851) II. 205 Johne Forbes of Leslie brak tryst appointit to haue satled the samen. 1715Pennecuik Tweeddale App. 36 Thus clos'd our Trist, all was Miscarried, And Bonnie Maggie's still Unmarried. 1871Waddell Ps. in Scottis lxxiv. 20 Hae min' o' the tryst ye made.
2. spec. An appointment or engagement to meet at a specified time and place. Chiefly in phrases, as to make tryst, † set tryst; to hold tryst, keep tryst; to break tryst, † crack tryst; to bide tryst, to wait at the appointed place for the person with whom the appointment is made. Also fig.
Only Sc. till 19th c.
1375Barbour Bruce vii. 235 The kyng..richt toward the houss is gane Quhar he set trist to mete his men. c1470Henry Wallace vi. 865 In Ruglen kyrk the tryst than haiff thai set. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxxiii. 13 Ȝe keipit tryst so winder weill. 1546St. Papers Hen. VIII, V. 561 Yar is ane trist be twin ye Lord of Loichenwer and Herell of Cassellis on Frydye nest to cum in Glasquhow. 1629Z. Boyd Last Battell 1257 The Salmons..in their season returne to the place where they were spawned:..and for no rubs in the way will they be moued to cracke their tryst. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxi, ‘You walk late, sir’, said I... ‘I bide tryste’, was the reply. 1853C. Brontë Villette xii, To keep tryste with the rising moon. 1878Susan Phillips On Seaboard 214 She stood..keeping her tryst at the stile. 1881W. R. Smith Old Test. Jew. Ch. 232 The place where Jehovah has promised to hold tryst with His people.
3. An appointed meeting or assembly: = rendezvous 5. In quot. 1681 fig. ‘a [divinely appointed] concurrence of circumstances or events’ (Jam.): cf. tryst v. 4, 5.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. ix. xvi. 1670 In Marche a day of trew was set..Schir Dauid Lorde de Lyndissay Was at þat tryst þat ilka day. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 181 Ane Inglis lord..cummys till a tryst to lordis of Fraunce. 1524St. Papers Hen. VIII, IV. 279 The saide Erle..hath appointed trestes and metingges with th Erle of Angwisshe and his frendes. c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxxiv. 75 Ȝe trane þame to ane tryst. 1681R. Fleming Fulfilling Script. i. (1726) 148 Acknowledging a divine hand..where all did thus meet together in a solemn tryst to accomplish that peoples ruin. a1700Lord's Marie i. in Cromek Rem. Nithsdale Song (1810) 6 An' she has put on her net-silk hose, An' awa to the tryste has gane. 1859G. Meredith R. Feverel xxi, Their tryst in the wood.
†b. An appointed journey. Obs. rare.
1768Ross Helenore i. 65 Gin we reach na' our tryst's end gin night.
4. An appointed place of meeting: = rendezvous 2.
1375Barbour Bruce vii. 230 And syne..richt toward his trist is gane. c1450Holland Howlat 307 Thai..Walis wyslie the wayis,..Quhill thai approche to the Pape..At the forsaid trist quhar the trete tellis. 1844Mrs. Browning Brown Rosary i. v, ‘Now where is Onora?’.. ‘At the tryst with her lover’.
5. An appointed time; in quot. 1864, an appointed period or term. rare. ? Obs.
c1470Henry Wallace iv. 731 At the set trist he entrit in the toune. 1827Hone Every-day Bk. II. 164 The time agreed on..for playing it [i.e. a curling-match] is called the tryst. 1864Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. IV. 620 In the year 1100, the end of Robert's tryst, when the term would be concluded.
6. An appointed gathering for buying and selling; a market or fair, esp. for cattle. Sc. and north. Eng.
1776W. Nimmo Hist. Stirling. iii. (1817) 62 The two great annual markets for black cattle, called the Trysts of Falkirk. a1800Thomas the Rhymer i. xviii. in Scott Minstr. Scot. Bord., I neither dought to buy nor sell, At fair or tryst where I may be. 1808Scott in Lockhart Life i, The master and servant set off to purchase a stock of sheep at Whitsun-Tryste, a fair held..near Wooler in Northumberland. 1884Queen Victoria More Leaves 46 We met many droves of cattle on the road, as it was the day for the tryst at Castleton.
7. attrib., as tryst-place, a trysting-place; tryst-stone, ‘a stone anciently erected for marking out a rendezvous’ (Jam.); tryst-word, a password or watchword.
1795Statist. Acc. Scot. XVI. 512 The tryst-stanes are commonly on high ground. They are placed perpendicularly in rows, not unfrequently in a circular direction. 1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. 618 Thy favourite stone's elected right As tryst-place for thy Tuscans. 1896R. Reid in N. York Scot. American Oct., The tryst-word seemed ‘Kirkbride’.
▪ II. tryst, v. orig. and chiefly Sc.|traɪst|
[f. tryst n.]
1. intr. To make an agreement to do something, with a person; esp. to fix or arrange time and place of meeting with some one.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxx. (Theodera) 334 Scho kepyt þe trist..And with hyr brocht þe man in hy, Quhare scho tristit priuely. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 797 To the Montane he maid hem full boun, Quhair he had trystit to meit Schir Rolland. 1678Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. i. xx. §3 (1699) 108 Whosoever intercommuns with Thieves..or Trysts with them any manner of way. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. v. i, As she had trysted, I met wi'er this night. 1899Crockett Kit Kennedy xxxiii, Kit..had trysted with the ‘Orra Man’ to meet him at the smiddy.
2. trans. To engage (a person) to meet one at a given place and time; to appoint or agree to meet.
In quot. 1643, loosely used as = meet.
1643Declar. Com., Reb. Irel. 60 It was my good fortune..to trist a Barke come from the Isle of Man. 1766A. Nicol Poems 43 He trysted me one evening fair, Among the groves to take the air. 1893Stevenson Catriona xiii, I am trysted with your cousin Charlie; I have passed my word.
b. With advb. extension: To invite or entice to a place, or to a distance.
a1800in Kinloch Anc. Scott. Ballads (1827) 157, I trysted her Unto yon shade o' broom. 1894W. D. Latto Tam. Bodkin xxiii, Trystin' me awa on that eventfu' pilgrimage.
c. To engage (a person) to do something; to appoint, agree upon, arrange, fix (a task). Only in pa. pple.
1897[see trysted below]. 1899Crockett Kit Kennedy viii. He was trysted to give what help he could to the herd..in lambing time.
3. To appoint, fix (a time, occurrence, etc.).
1586Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV. 63 Upoun the XI day of Marche..as the day tryistit and appointit be the said Williame Ker. 1716Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 120 Had not God tristed the flight of the rebels just at that time.
b. To bespeak; to arrange for, or order in advance; to engage.
1825Jamieson s.v., ‘I trystit my furniture to be hame’ on such a day. 1894W. D. Latto Tam. Bodkin xxiv, I had trystit a chaise an' pair frae the Fleein' Horse.
4. To visit with good or evil; of an experience: to come upon, befall; ‘used in relation to a divine ordination’ (Jam.).
1645R. Baillie Lett. (1841) II. 314 That this should have trysted the enemie at that tyme and place..is evidentlie God's hand. a1679Somerville Mem. Somervilles (1815) II. 351 Untill Divyne Justice trysted them with some crosse dispensatione. 1681R. Fleming Fulfilling Script. Ep. to Rdr. (1726) 6 The most eminent and honourable service of the church doth usually tryst her in a low and suffering condition. 1816Scott Old Mort. xl[i], Sair she's been trysted wi' misfortunes.
†b. To fix upon. Obs. rare—1.
1700Sir A. Balfour Lett. 254 They go at the Rate of an Ordinary Horse trot, & as they go will trist the stones to step upon, which lye confusedly here and there, as exactly as if they were a paire of stairs.
†5. intr. To coincide in time with; to fall together, concur. Also trans. in causal sense (quot. 1681). Obs.
1676W. Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. ix. (1848) 134 His stroke trysting with the public burden. 1681R. Fleming Fulfilling Script. i. (1726) 148 What a marvelous concurrence of providence..was in this judgment, the besieging of Jerusalem by the Romans, trysted with the very time of the passover [etc.]. 1730T. Boston Mem. iv. (1899) 39 That discouragement and the spring-season trysting together, there was a notable breach made in my health.
6. intr. To keep tryst; to meet at the appointed time and place.
a1842Cunningham in Casquet of Lit. (1886) V. 303 There flows the stream I've trysted through, when it was wild in flood. 1898Westm. Gaz. 7 Dec. 11/2 When the Cottesmore trysted at Somerby on Saturday.
†7. intr. To treat or negotiate with. Obs.
1637Rutherford Let. to Lady Kilconquhair 8 Aug., You came to this life about a necessary and weighty business, to tryst with Christ anent your precious soul. 1637–50[see trysting vbl. n. 1]. 1639Ld. Wariston Diary (S.H.S.) 351 We trysted on al day with the Commissioner, bot could settle nothing. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1850) I. 176 Thay raisit ane army and cam to Innervrie, quhilk he could not resist, nor whome fra he could onnawayis flie, be sea or land, [and he] wes forsit to tryst and give his band, no doubt to thair contentment.
Hence ˈtrysted, ˈtrysting ppl. adjs.
1793Burns Mary Morison i, It is the wish'd, the trysted hour! 1878T. Hardy Ret. Native i. ix, The conversation of the trysting pair could not be overheard. 1897Crockett Lad's Love xxix, That his shepherd..is shirking his trysted labour.
▪ III. tryst(e
obs. f. trest; var. trist Obs. |