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Betraise, Betres(e, v. Also: betras(e, bytrase, betrais, -ays; betreis, betreys. [ME. betrais, betrayse (c 1300), f. OF. traïss-, trahiss-. lengthened stem of traïr, trahir: see Betray.] tr. To betray; to act treacherously or deceitfully towards; to deceive.(a) 1375 Barb. v. 539.
Quhen men schupe hym to betrais a1400 Leg. S. i. 24.
Had he wittin … Quhat he was [that] suld Criste betrais c1420 Wynt. vi. 1552.
A fals traytoure … This Ethelrede betraysyd syne 1456 Hay I. 244/12.
Mony … haf bene dissavit, betraisit, and undone Ib. II. 30/20.
A traytour that betraisis his awin lord naturale c1475 Wall. xi. 848.
Menteth, apon fals wys, Betraysyt Wallace a1500 Bk. Chess 1198.
Sic ane tratour … That wald betrais thir barnis innocens 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. i. 40.
Cruell fortoun, quhy hes thow me betraisit? Id. Æn. i. vii. 94.
Quhar The quhite tentis of kyng Rhesus … Betraisit war 1533 Bell. Livy II. 71/19.
Nocht onelie the tribunis war corruppit … to betrais the public liberte 1535 Stewart 16390.
Tua fair ȝoung men … [he] Perswadit hes … for to betrais the king 1542 Acts II. 415/2.
Thaim that sall happin to betrais the kingis army 1570 Sat. P. xii. 6.
James, Earle of Murray, … betraist in to that toun a1578 Pitsc. I. 36/17.
The realme is wraikit and betraissit 1582 Misc. Spald. C. II. 337.
Peter Heyis eldest sone being … direct be his father to betraise me(b) 1375 Barb. iv. 17.
Worthy Crystoll off Seytoun In-to Loudon betresyt was Ib. 23.
It wes fer wer than tratoury For to betreys sic a persoune a1400 Leg. S. iii. 364.
Ane of ȝou betrese me sall Ib. xxx. 22.
Kerlyngis, that … Ȝung men betresis oft-syse c1420 Wynt. vii. 492.
Offt yhe have herd, off me That yhe suld betresyd be 1535 Stewart 44115.
Promittand him … Lordschip and land, … This toun to thame so that he wald betreis 1533 Boece iv. viii. 137.
Dardane … causit betreis and sla nobill Cardoure 1600 Acts IV. 207/2.
Help. I am betresit. They ar murdressing me 1604 Crim. Trials II. 434.
He seing him selff betreissit, gettis his handis lowse(c) a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 39.
As Iudas Crist betrasit 1513 Doug. i. v. 42.
Bot we … ar betrasit ilkane Ib. ix. vii. 63.
Quham … The myrk nycht … Betrasyt had 1531 Bell. Boece I. 282.
Send us support in haist, that we be nocht … cruelly betrasit 1535 Stewart 1108.
The Pechtis … wer betrasit with ane subtell trane 1540 Lynd. Sat. 3282.
Haif I nocht maid ane honest schift, That hes betrasit common Thift 1562-3 Winȝet I. 129/7.
The nycht he wes betrasit 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 31.
The proveist … betrasit thame and fled hame