† sythn.
Scottish. Obsolete.
Satisfaction, compensation. to get one's heart's syth of: see quot. 1710.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > [noun]
boot971
edbotec1315
amendmentc1325
amendsc1330
assethe1340
enoughbote1340
satisfaction1340
redress1384
menda1400
redemptiona1400
curation?c1400
amends making?a1425
mends-makinga1425
recompensec1425
expiation1482
agreement1526
contentation1535
sythmentc1540
syth1567
atonement-making1587
atonement1611
piation1623
atone1868
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 104 Ȝour bludie boist na syith can satisfie.
1661 in S. Ree Rec. Elgin (1908) II. 295 The said John wes suire that he wold get his heart syth of everie one that wronged him.
1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. at Site, syte I have gotten my heart's syte on him, i.e. my heart's desire on him, or all the evil I wish'd him.
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† sythv.
Scottish. Obsolete. absolute.1583 in D. H. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 599 He forgevis thame..of quhat degre sa evir thay be of. Quhilk as his majestie heir promittis, sa sall he mak it to cythe in gud effect heirefter.
a. transitive. To satisfy, give satisfaction to.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > be contented or satisfied [verb (intransitive)] > give contentment or satisfaction
to make or do asseth1340
satisfya1513
syth1513
satiate1645
to hit (also go to, touch, etc.) the spot1836
the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > be content or satisfied with [verb (transitive)] > content or satisfy
paya1200
apaya1250
pleasec1350
assythc1375
savourc1390
filsen?a1425
satisfy?a1425
sufficec1430
satify1434
applease1470
content1477
assethe1481
appetite1509
syth1513
satisfice?1531
gratify1569
gree1570
explenish1573
promerit1582
accommodate1624
placentiate1694
society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > atone [verb (intransitive)]
abyelOE
amendc1330
to make or do asseth1340
to make a seth(e1387
make amends and sethec1420
satisfyc1425
byec1440
to do or make greec1492
syth1513
reconcile1539
respond1789
repair1886
society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > atone for [verb (transitive)]
beetc897
i-bye10..
abyelOE
answer?a1300
buya1300
amendc1300
mendc1330
forbuy1340
redressa1387
answera1400
byea1400
filla1400
peasea1400
ransoma1400
to pay for——c1400
recompense?a1439
abidea1450
satisfyc1460
redeema1464
repaira1513
syth1513
reconcile1535
acquit1567
dispense1590
assoil1596
propitiate1610
expiatea1626
atone1661
retrievea1679
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. vii. 116 He mycht do stanche his ire, and syth his thocht.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ix. xxviii. f. 130/1 The kyng was nocht full sithit with his Iustice.
a1550 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Wemyss) xcv. l. 3970 [Scho] gaif þame siluer or payment, Or claith to syþ thare entent.
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 49 That pane may be in put to Forfaltouris: The Partie sythit, as Law will lat it be.
b. ? intransitive for passive. To be satisfied.
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1650 in W. Ross Aberdour & Inchcolme (1885) 326 [He had called her] a trumpous [cross-tempered] witch, [and her heart] sythed [glowed with satisfaction, when she saw him coming home in his hurt condition].
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