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poustie, pousté Obs. (or Sc. arch.)|ˈpaʊstɪ|
Forms: 4–5 pouˈste (also 6 Sc.), -stˈee, powˈste (5 -ee), poeste, poweste, poste (5 -ee), pauste (5 -i); 5 pooste, poˈstey, ˈpousty, 5–6 ˈpostie, -y (6 -ye), 5 (7 Sc.) pausty, 7 Sc. powstie, 7, 9 Sc. poustie.
[ME. a. OF. poesté, pousté (a 1000 podestat):—L. potestāt-em power.]
Power; strength, might; authority. See also liege poustie.
in poustie, poste (quot. c 1450), in one's power, possible.
a1300Cursor M. 4371 (Cott.) He þat has giuen me pouste [Fairf. pausty] slike Godd forbedd i suld him suike. Ibid. 26140 To quam vr lauerd has giuen poste Bath to bind and als laus þe. 13..Guy Warw. (A.) cxlv, Sumtime ich was..An erl of gret pouste. 1375Barbour Bruce i. 110 In-to swilk thrillage thaim held he, That he ourcome throw his powste. 1415York Corpus Christi Play in Hist. & Antiq. York (1785) II. 130 And here I grant in your Postey Whom that ye bound, bondan shall be Ryht at your Steyne. c1450Merlin 610 Yef it were in poste, he wolde it not haue do for all the reme of grete Breteigne. c1460in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 160, I put hem vndyr in thy poweste. 1474Caxton Chesse ii. v, Whan I submysed Affrique in to your poeste. a1529Skelton P. Sparowe 1330 By..all the dedly names Of infernall posty, Where soules fry and rosty. 1570Levins Manip. 110/14 Postie, potestas, atis. 1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall Ded., Statur and strength, so dexterously kythed by a peereles pausty in all campestrial prowes. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 147 Her weary knicht's ilk limb and lith Gat tenfauld poustie, pow'r, and pith. 1845Polson Eng. Law in Encycl. Metrop. II. 850/1 Hence the distinction, so well known to Scotch lawyers, of death-bed and liege poustie—the technical terms indicating two states of competency and incompetency to burden or dispose of an estate to the prejudice of the lawful heir. |