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▪ I. † gist, n.1 Obs.
Also 3–7 giste, 6 geist.
[a. OF. giste (F. gîte) resting- or stopping-place, etc., vbl. n. related to gis-, gésir to lie. In the 16th and 17th cents. the more usual form is gest n.4]
1. A stopping-place or lodging. Also pl. a list of stopping-places or stages in a monarch's progress.
a1225Ancr. R. 350 He ne etstont nout ase foles doð, auh..hieð toward his giste. 13..Geburt Jesu (Horstm.) 587 Oure ledi..leide him on awisp of hei; Þer was apore giste. c1470Harding Chron. ccxl. Add. st. (Harl. MS.), I make you a kalende Of all the waie to Edenbourgth expres, And wher your giste ech nyght may well extend. 1528Gardiner Let. to Wolsey (P.R.O.), I sende your Grace also the King's Gists. 1600Holland Livy xxxviii. xli. 1009 From this giste they made but one daies journey to Apollonia. 1619Visct. Doncaster in Eng. & Germ. (Camden) 144 According to the gistes I found there of King Ferdinand his coming on to the election [etc.]. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey) s.v. Giste, Gists or Gests of the Queen's Progress, i.e. a Bill or Writing that contains the Names of the Towns or Houses where she intends to lie upon the Way.
b. said of birds and their halting-places.
1545Joye Exp. Dan. Ded. A ij, The same sea yt harboureth these fowles thus sytting upon theyr egges wyl be so cawme and styll to her geistes for xiiii dayes, that men may suerly sayle withoute peryl upon her. 1601Holland Pliny x. xxiii, These Quailes have their set gists, to wit, ordinarie resting and baiting places.
2. ? Refreshment.
a1290Kindh. Jesu (Horstm.) 180 Þo dronk Marie..of þat welle..And Josep maude al so gret feste, More him likede þat ilke giste Þan ani flechs i sode oþur i rost.
▪ II. † gist, n.2 Obs.
Forms: 5 geyst, 6 gyest, 7 geast, jeast, giste, 8 joist.
[f. gist v.]
A right of pasture or ‘feed’ for cattle by payment or otherwise, agistment. Also cow-gist.
1493Will R. Drury in Cullum Hawstead (1784) 119 Also I will that William my sone have all suche shepe as I have at geyst at my dethe. 1558Scotter Manor Roll (N.W. Linc. Gloss.), Richarde Hollande hathe taken of straungers vj beas gyest in y⊇ Lordes commene. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 119 Such beasts as are thus taken into any pasture to bee kept are (hereaboutes) called geasters..and theire gates soe many severall jeastes. Ibid. 120 Her nowtheards wage is 20 s. in money, the milke of a cowe, and a cowe-geast.
b. Comb., as gist-cattle, -horses, animals agisted; gist-money (see quot.); gist-taker = agistor.
1784Cullum Hawsted 119 note *Joist cattle..the cattle of other people taken to pasture at so much a week or month.
1598Scotter Manor Roll (N.W. Linc. Gloss.), De Thoma Easton quia cepit le *giste-horses in commune pastura iijs. iiijd.
1876Whitby Gloss., *Gist money, the payment for pasturage of cattle that are agisted or fed at a stipulated price.
1626Spelman Gloss. s.v. Fenatio [says that the Eng. versions of Charta de Foresta mistranslate forestarii et viridarii by] *Gyst-takers or walkers.
▪ III. gist, n.3|dʒɪst|
Also (sense 1 only) in 8–9 later F. form gît, corruptly gite, gîte, and jet n.4
[a. OF. gist (F. gît), 3 sing. pres. ind. of gésir to lie, gésir en to consist in, depend on, used in the AF. law phrase (cest) action gist, ‘(this) action lies’, which occurs 1502-3 in Kelvey's Rep. (1688) lf. 50a, and is common in law-books.]
1. Law. The real ground or point (of an action, indictment, etc.).
α17115 Modern Reports (1794) 305 (Gatehouse v. Row) Because it is the very gist of the action. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 333 These charges..are the points and very gist of the indictment. 1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. 1842 I. 501 This is the great gist of the charge against him. 1834P. Bingham New Cases I. 72 The gist of the action being the assault and battery. 1875Poste Gaius iv. (ed. 2) 502 The gist (gîte) of the civil action of Condictio..was the increase of the defendant's fortune or patrimony by the reduction of the plaintiff's patrimony without any consideration or equivalent gain to the plaintiff.
β1726Sir J. Strange Rep. Cases I. 666 Where the special damage is the git of the action, this sort of evidence is allowed. 1795Christian in Blackstone's Comm. (1809) III. 140 The gît or foundation of the action is held to consist in the husband's loss of the comfort and society of his wife. 1823De Quincey King of Hayti Wks. 1862 XI. 41 The gite of the lawyer's reasoning.
2. The substance or pith of a matter, the essence or main part.
1823in Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) I. 339 This is the gist. Here lies the whole of it. 1861T. A. Trollope La Beata II. xii. 52 The gist of the fun is to demand the production of the green sprig..at the most..unexpected times. 1864Bowen Logic xi. 363 The gist of the reasoning does not depend upon any Maxim or First Principle.
▪ IV. gist, v. Obs. exc. dial.|dʒaɪst|
Also 5 geyst, 8 joist.
[Aphetic form of agist; cf. also gise v.]
1. trans. To take in or put out (cattle) to pasture at so much per head: = agist v. 1.
1483Cath. Angl. 157/1 To Giste, agistare. 1492Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 103 A neighbour of myne..which geysted with two of your servants in Haywras x bests. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. Gloss. s.v. Agistator, Agister..to receive in cattel to be so pastur'd or gisted [etc.]. 1799A. Young Agric. Linc. 325 They are forced to..joist their sheeders in the spring. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Gist, to agist, to pasture out cattle on hire.
†2. intr. Of cattle: To remain and feed for a specified time: = agist v. 2. Obs.
1519in Surtees Misc. (1888) 33 For takynge viij swyn to gist, xijd. 1601W. Fulbecke 1st Pt. Parall. 31 Whatsoeuer is gained by..the harrowing of horses, or the letting to gist of kine.
Hence † ˈgisted ppl. a.; ˈgisting vbl. n.
1794Pringle Agric. Surv. Westmld. 21 Every occupier of land..having it in his power to keep..cattle through the months of summer, upon joisted fields..at a cheap rate. 1829Brockett N.C. Words (ed. 2), Gisting, the feeding of cattle, which in some places are called gisements. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Gisting, the agistment of cattle.
▪ V. gist(e
obs. form of guest, joist. |