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▪ I. † ˈottroye, n. Obs. rare. [a. OF. otroi, ottroy, in AF. also ottroy, vbl. n. from otroyer: see next.] Yielding, concession.
1480Caxton Ovid's Met. x. vi, Venus..shewde hyme [Pygmalion] signes of ottroye & consente. ▪ II. † ˈottroye, v. Obs. [a. OF. ot(t)roier (12th c. in Littré), earlier form of octroyer: see octroy.] trans. To accord, concede, grant; = octroy v. 1.
c1477Caxton Jason 7 And after congie and licence taken and ottroied he retourned into his countrey. 1491― Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) i. li. 106 b/2 The holy man apperceyued that the tresoure of grace was to hym ottroyed and gyuen. 1512Helyas in Thoms Prose Rom. (1828) III. 14 The honour..with good hert I ottroye and graunt you. 1546St. Papers Hen. VIII, XI. 234, I thoughte that the Kinge his maister shuld do as well to punisshe hym for it, as to ottroye hym the combat. ottur |