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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Mangit, ppl. a. Also: mangd. [Mang v.] Mentally confused, crazed, crazy, distracted, out of one's mind; ? of a senile person, imbecile, doting; also ? discomfited, worsted.Freq. also half-mangit.(1) a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 546.
Hangit mangit eder stangit strynd stultorum
c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 118.
That carll mangit That full of eldnyng is & anger & all euill thewis
1513 Doug. vi. Prol. 20.
It semys a man war mangit [1553, manglit] tharon list luke
1535 Stewart 19708. Ib. 39586.
So wode thai war and mangit out of mynd, … [that] thai did remane Fechtand in feild
Ib. 52605.
And wald he nocht that tyme to be so mangit Befoir his face richt sone he sould se hangit His awin deir sone
a1538 Abell 105 b.
[If] thare fathir & mothir be mangit & thai haif na cuyre of thame
1540 Lynd. Sat. 2029.
Hold thy tung man, it semis that thow art mangit, Speik thow of preistis but dowt thow wilt be hangit
Ib. 1510, 2286. 1571 Sat. P. xxv. 137.
That hanged or manged, Mot ilk man mak his end Wha … Wald nocht this house defend
1605 Dundonald Par. Rec. 86.
Jonat Lovri … was mangit in hir vit and vist not quhat scho did
(2) 1513 Doug. iii. v. 52.
At the fyrst blenk … to the grond half mangit fel scho down
Ib. viii. Prol. 16.
Musyng marris our myrth half mangit al most
Ib. xii. xii. 199. a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xxiv. 42.
I sitt and sighis all soliter and sad, Half mangd in mynd, almost as I war mad

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