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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Begile, Begyle, v. Also: begyll(e, begil, beguill; p.p. begylvt, -it, begilit; begyld(e, begild, -guild; beguilt, begelt, begelit. [ME. begyle, -gile, bigile (c 1225), f. gile vb.] tr. To entrap or overreach by guile; to deceive or cheat.(a) 1375 Barb. xix. 680 (the man leit him begilit ill). a1400 Leg. S. xxvi. 812 (how he begil mocht the Iow). 1456 Hay I. 177/26 (to begile him). a1500 Henr. Fab. 1255 (al begilit thay will in schort tyme end). Id. Orph. 169 (withoutin gilt begild). 1513 Doug. iv. Prol. 101 (fair ladeys to begile). 1533 Gau 24/3 (we suld noth dissaue or begil thayme). c1550 Rolland C. Venus iii. 447 (I am begilit and thay find it not thair). a1578 Pitsc. II. 87/12 (they war beguild withtin schort dayis).(b) a1400 Leg. S. xxv. 519 (trowand he mycht begylyt be). c1420 Wynt. vi. 2222 (wytht swylk a wyle This Makbeth for till begyle). 1456 Hay I. 188/34 (to begyle Cristyn folk); II. 31/28 (sik men that begylis thair lordis). c1475 Wall. xi. 793 (quhat man mycht best Wallace begyll). c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 98 (na, gaipand fule, thow art begyld); xlix. 16 (his frawdfull wylis him self begylis). 1533 Reg. Great S. 286/2 (sa that our soverane lord be nocht begylit tharewith). 1562-3 Winȝet II. 6/35 (this is, or I am begylit, an infallible reul). 1567 G. Ball. 182 (so lang the warld thay haif begylde). 1596 Dalr. II. 59/3 (fraudfullie to begyl the chanceller). 1622-6 Bisset II. 240/3 (to begyle merchandis throw malice). c1650 Spalding I. 201 (he wes begyllit).(c) a1400 Leg. S. xxxvi. 993 (Herot thocht hyme il begelt). 1559 Inverness B. Rec. I. 33 (ye ar all begelit). a1598 Ferg. Prov. 108 (wont beguilt the ladie).
