A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1490-1643
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Ingrate, -grait, a. Also: -grat, -graite. [ME. ingrat (1393), e.m.E. ingrate (1528), L. ingrātus, OF. ingrat, -ate.]
1. Ungrateful, unthankful; treacherously disloyal, unfriendly, or cruel. (Said of persons and their actions.)(a) 1490 Irland Mir. fol. 226.
Thame that are euill, wikkit, ingrat, and brekis his law a1585 Arbuthnot Maitland Quarto MS xxxv. 97.
Ingrat, vnthankfull man a1585 Ib. lxviii. 46.
Without I wald Ingrat be & vnkynd 1600-1610 Melvill 221.
I war maist ingrat if I sould forget my … maist courteus lady(b) 1533 Boece i. iii. 36 b.
Thinking that of the thankis resauit be his broder he suld nocht be ingrate 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 20/15.
Al them that ar ingrate of the benefecis of Gode 1572 D. Fergusson Serm. Malachi B iv.
The ingrate behauiour of Israell to [God](c) 1568 Hosack Mary Queen of Scots 570.
The King … ingrait of the honour ressavit of hir hienes c 1580 Waus Corr. 113.
To suffer the ingrait handeling of sik as he hes bein beneficiall vnto 1585 1st Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 53.
Assure youre self ye have not ane unmyndfull nor ingraite maister 1600 Hamilton Cath. Tr. (S.T.S.) 230/15.
Thair culpable consciences procuris na vther ansuere, bot our inprisonement and ingrait banisment 1643 Acts VI. i. 49/2.
Least they sould ather be thocht ingraite or wnkynd to yow
2. Unpleasing, disagreeable. Const. to (a person).1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. iii. 257.
Roboam … Tint all his leigis hartis be his fait, He was to thame sa outrageous ingrait 1533 Boece vii. viii. 237 b.
How beit this viage was litill plesing to Britons, ȝit to Vrsula … it was nocht ingrate c1550 Rolland Court of Venus ii. 296.
So terribill thay ar be apperance, … So scelerait, and ingrait for to chois
