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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quat, p.p. Also: quatt, quet. [P.p. of Quite v. in senses of Quite adj.] a. Rid, quit (of something or someone troublesome). = Quite adj. 4. b. Cancelled, annulled. Cf. Quite adj. 2. c. Of a due payment: Discharged, cleared. = Quite adj. 2 d. d. Done or made away with. = Quite adj. 7 a. —a. 1570 Reg. Morton I 58.
For I wald fane be quet of the maister Forbes swit 1663 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I 405.
Provyding he could be quatt of his wyfeb. c 1691 Melville Corr. 239.
That one soe young as shee should have been soe concern'd to have ane unjust right quattc. a1598 Ferg. Prov. No. 126.
A Ȝule feast may be quat at Pasche 1616 Crim. Trials III 389.
Ȝit according till our auld Scottis proverb, Ane Ȝule feist may be quat at Pase, quhen perhapis they may imagin it be forgotd. 1651 Dickson Matthew (1651) 54.
It were better that he should be mortified and quat