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▪ I. † reˈgrate, n.1 Sc. Obs.
Also 5–6 regrait.
[f. regrate v.1, or a. OF. *regrat, var. of regret regret n.]
1. Lamentation, complaint; expression of grief, distress, or sorrow. Also with a and pl.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xvi. (Magdalene) 468 Þat gret pitte wes to here his regrat & sorowful chere. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 64 Thai maid grete regrate and lamentacioun for the noble prince. c1480Henryson Test. Cres. 397 Yit thay presumit, for hir hy regrait And still murning, sho was of nobill kin. 1513Douglas æneis v. xiii. 35 In the meyn sesoun Venus..Spak to Neptune with sic peteous regrait. c1614Sir W. Mure Dido & æneas i. 445 Such regrates vnable more to hear: ‘Brave Trojane be encourag'd’ Venus sayes. a1653Binning Serm. (1845) 399 The first word is, to the Heavens and to the earth: a weighty and horrible regrate of this people. 1671MacWard True Nonconf. 23 You still your..regrate, for the neglect and ruine of the work of God; by the Consideration of Gods Power and Providence.
2. Sorrow, regret.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 55 Thai had sa grete regrate to leve it, that all maid sik sorow..that pitee was to se. 1581J. Hamilton in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.) 95 They brocht hir hienes in contempt of certane rebellious subiectis to hir vnnaturall banishment, and gret regrait of all treu Scottis-men. a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vi. (1677) 373 They had expressed their great regrate for the disappointment of his Preparations. 1704Let. to Sc. Parlt. in Lond. Gaz. No. 4037/1 Animosities, that to Our great Regrate we discovered among you.
▪ II. † reˈgrate, n.2 Obs. rare—1.
[? f. re- + grate v.; cf. regrate v.4]
Oppression.
1621Quarles Esther Introd. 116 Degenerate Cambyses..Sits crowned King, to vexe the Persian state With heauy burthens, and with sore regrate.
▪ III. † regrate, n.3
[Of obscure origin.]
Request.
c1450Craft of Lovers xii. in Stow Chaucer (1561) 341/2 Me semeth by langage ye be some potestate..What is your name mekely I make regrate.
▪ IV. † regrate, v.1 Sc. Obs.
Also 7 regrait.
[ad. OF. regrater, var. of regreter, regretter to regret.]
1. trans. To lament, to feel or express grief or sorrow at (some injury, loss, or event).
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xvii. (Martha) 24 Of þat [town] come þane bath ȝung & ald, þare skath regratand. 1513Douglas æneis i. iv. 106 The petefull Eneas Regratis oft the hard fortune and cais Of sterne Orontes new drownit in the se. 1581J. Hamilton in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.) 74 Albeit this is to be hauelie regratit..yit all youre graces faythfull subiectis hes confort. 1632Lithgow Trav. iv. 140, I cannot but regrate, the great losse Sir Thomas Glouer receiued. 1671W. Rait Vind. Reformed Relig. 252 You would father a contradiction on me, because I regrate our rents [= divisions]. a1712T. Halyburton Five Serm. (1721) 14 You have many onlookers, sin Satan and the world who regrate your prosperity.
b. With obj. clause introduced by that.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xvi. (Magdalene) 455 [He] regratit ofte be-twene, þat euir he had þe magdelan sene. 1653R. Baillie Dissuas. Vind. (1655) 77 You regrate that such men as your self and other Anabaptists..were misregarded. 1704Earl Seafield in Lond. Gaz. No. 4037/4 It is to be Regrated, that the Nation is in so low a Condition.
2. To lament or mourn for the loss or death of (a person or thing).
1375Barbour Bruce xv. 233 Schir Eduuard..regratit his gret manhede, And his worschip with douchty dede. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xii. (Mathias) 207 Regratand alswa hyr husband þat ded. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. Jas. IV Wks. (1711) 78 He had..a natural son, arch-bishop of St. Andrew's, so much admired and regrated by Erasmus. 1685Gracian's Courtiers Orac. 258 The Phœnix it self makes use of retirement and desire, to make it self to be the more esteemed and regrated.
3. intr. To lament, mourn.
1616Sir W. Mure Misc. Poems xi. 18 Eyes, by ȝor streames of silwer trickling teares, Regrait, since sche is butt [= without] remorce!
▪ V. regrate, v.2 Obs. exc. Hist.|rɪˈgreɪt|
[a. OF. regrater, mod.F. regratter, usually regarded as f. gratter to scrape, grate v., but the form of the synonymous It. rigattare (Florio), Sp. regatear, makes this doubtful.]
1. trans. To buy up (market commodities, esp. victuals) in order to sell again at a profit in the same or a neighbouring market.
The practice was formerly regarded as hurtful to the community, and was forbidden by various enactments: see the quots. here and under regrater, regrating, regrator.
1467in Eng. Gilds (1870) 381 That Bakers..regrate no corne commynge to the market, in peyne of lesynge xx.s. 1551–2Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI, c. 14 §2 Whatsoever person..shall by any meanes regrate obteyne or gett into his..possession in any fair or market, anye corne wyne fishe [etc.],..and doe sell the same agayne in any fayre or markett holden or kepte in the same place, or..within fower myles thereof, shalbe..taken for a Regrator. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 7 As by monopolies, enhansing, ingrossing, and regrating corne or other commodities. 1697in Strype Stow's Surv. (1754) II. v. xxi. 413/1 No man shall regrate any victuals in the Markets..under pain of forfeiture of the victuals so regrated. 1707Ibid. (1720) I. Billingsgate 166/2 Without fail, they cause all Persons that..shall Regrate Fish (that is to say Buy Fish and Sell the same again in the said Market) to be apprehended.
2. To sell again (articles so bought), to retail.
1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. i. xliii. 99 His going thether was..also for to regrate their gold, and this was done in xxv. dayes. 1623Cockeram, Forestall, to buy any Merchandize by the highway, ere it come into the marquet for to regrate it againe. 1859Riley Liber Albus Pref. (Rolls) I. p. lxii, The keepers of ale-taverns or ale-houses, who regrated the ale which they had purchased from the brewery.
▪ VI. † regrate, v.3 Obs. rare.
[ad. med.L. regratiāre: see regratiate v.]
trans. To reward, repay, requite (a person).
c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden No. 36) 146 That cruell tyrants showlde bee regrated with juste penaltie for there great impietie. Ibid. 166 To the ende he might seeme to regrate Allmightie Godd for his victorie.
▪ VII. † reˈgrate, v.4 Obs. rare.
[app. f. re- + grate v.1: cf. next.]
a. intr. To grate on something.
b. trans. To grate upon, offend (the eye).
1652Feltham Low-Countries (1661) 62 Too much to regrate on the patience of but fickle Subjects, is to press a Thorn till it prick your finger. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. iv. xii. 224 Those that are the least beautified with Colours, or rather whose Clothing may regrate the Eye. Ibid., By an incurious view it rather regrateth than pleaseth the Eye.
▪ VIII. reˈgrate, v.5 rare—0.
[ad. F. regratter, f. gratter to grate v.1]
(See quot.)
1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v. Regrater, Among masons, etc. to Regrate, is to take off the outer surface of an old hewn stone, with the hammer and ripe, in order to whiten, and make it look fresh again. [Taken from the Dict. de Trévoux: hence in Crabb, Parker, Gwilt, and recent Dicts.] |