A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1391-1499
[0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
Distrouble, -troubil, v. Also: dystrowble, distrowbyll, -troubel; dystrobyll, distrobylle, -trobil(l, -troble. [e.m.E. distrouble, ME. distroble, destrouble (Chaucer), OF. destroubler, -trobler. Cf. Distruble.] tr. To trouble greatly; to disturb, molest.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints l. 786.
With na wordis that ar dowble Answere nocht, me for to distrouble 1391 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. iii. 13.
Gyff it hapyn … that the forsaid Wauter or his ayris be distrowblit in ony tym off the forsaid foure yere be ony cause c1420 Wynt. vi. 2487.
Quhen this Edgare Ethlyng … The kynryk saw dystrowblyd swa 1442 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 307.
That na man … molest, inquiet, distroubil or entermet wyth the castele [etc.] … of Dalketh 1456 Hay I. 150/26.
For oft tymes hapnys that sum men of his company … wald distrouble all the lave 1459 Peebles B. Rec. 132.
Gyf euir the sayd Thom distrowbyllis … that party or other nychtburis 1474 Acts Lords Auditors 36/2.
That Robert Patonsoun wex not thaim nor distrouble in the broukin and joysin of the samyne(b) a1400 Legends of the Saints l. 214.
For ire distroblis sa the thocht, That suthfastly deyme ma it nocht 14.. Acts I. 108/2.
Thai sal nocht distrobil the men passand forouttyn hund folowand theyffis 1431 Reg. Great S. 45/1.
That thai distroble not the sayd Patrik in our gyft forsayd 1463 Wemyss Chart. 82.
Gyff it sall happyne me … till distrobylle, wex, inquiet or infest the said Johne 1486 Prestwick B. Rec. 31.
Elene Walcare accusit … his dochtir, that scho come in hir hous & distrobillit hir wrangwisly, & brak hir weblumys
