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Hate, Hait, v.1 Also: haitt, hayt, heat, het, heyt. [e.m.E. and ME. hate, ME. haten, hatien, OE. hatian.] tr. To hate (a person, practice, or other thing).(1) (a) 1375 Barb. ix. 465.
He held euir agane the king, And hatit hyme atour all thing a1400 Leg. S. xxviii. 87.
Hyre fadir hir hatit sa c1420 Wynt. v. 5101.
The wyff offt hatys … Hym that hyr husband haldys dere 1456 Hay I. 190/1.
Ȝit wate we wele thai hate us dedely 1490 Irland Mir. I. 112/4.
He sal be hatit, … and cruelly put to deid c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 273.
I hatit him like a hund 1513 Doug. iv. vi. 76.
For thé I haue beyn hatyt this mony a day a1578 Pitsc. I. 182 h.
How the lordis hatit the duike of Albanie(b) a1400 Leg. S. xxxvi. 783.
The cristyne thai haitit ay c1460 Thewis Wysmen 136.
Wysmen … hait learis atour al thinge c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 169.
I hait him with my hert 1525 Acts II. 298/1.
Persounis that thai hait and has inemytie aganis thaim 1567 Sat. P. iii. 151.
Quha dow abstene, … Except he hait our Scottis natioun? a1578 Pitsc. I. 85/12.
The Earle of Douglas … haittit the kingis counsallouris as his deidlie enemies 1615 Highland P. III. 225.
I haitt none of thaime 1622-6 Bisset I. 26/32.
To … confuit, and hait, the learis and dissaitful personis(c) c1615 Chron. Kings 75.
He inwyitt and heattit the Erlle of Douglas 1610 Misc. Hist. Soc. II. 199.
The caus why he heatit my father a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 809.
He that spairis the wand heats the bairne c 1630 Highland P. II. 269.
The McKenȝies who … heated the breiwe and his trybe(d) 1551 Hamilton Cat. 58.
Gif thai het me as thair fatheris hettit me(2) (a) c1450-2 Howlat 982.
A foule carioun, Hatit and hawles 1490 Irland Mir. I. 111/7.
That thou lufis iustice … , and hatis the contrare 1513 Doug. I. vi. 97.
All thai quhilk hatis the cruell tyrrantis dedis a1570-86 Maitl. F. cxi. 3.
Trasoun is the maist schamefull thing, … And sould be hatit maist(b) 1461 Liber Plusc. 386.
We suld it [this world] hayt and all that it ma feire c1460 Thewis of Wysmen 347.
Thai hait na thing mar bitterly Na wysmen 1513 Doug. x. viii. 156.
The tyme sall cum quhen Turnus sall … Hait and wary this spulȝe 1567 G. Ball. 47.
My fre will That haitit the veritie Ib. 80.
Gif ȝe lufe Christ, hait not his word a1578 Pitsc. I. 66/8.
Ewerie man begane to hait his crueltie a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xxiv. 45.
Meit, drink, and sleip, and company I hait(c) 1581 Burne Disput. 179.
He that dois euil heattis the licht c1590 Fowler I. § xvii. 1.
Suld I not heate these harmefull hands?(d) 1549 Compl. 143/13.
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