A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1580, 1684
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Matalent, Mautalent, n. (a.) Also: mate-, mati-, matulent, -at; mawtelent, mawvetalent. [ME. mautalent (c 1320), OF. mau-, matalent, varr. of maltalent Maltalent n.] Ill-will, grudge; anger, rage; spite, malice.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvi. 377.
He for-gef his matalent (c 1580) Alex. i. 545.
To greif His fais … And suage on thame his matelent (c 1580) Ib. ii. 612.
The chylde smyled … And tholed his emis matelent (c 1580) Ib. 1820.
Quhen Cassamus hard his intent His blude changed for matelent (c 1580) Ib. i. 3197, ii. 1352, 4093, etc. c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 2151. c1460 Thewis Wysmen 257. c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace iv. 465; etc.
Wallace … Vpon the hed him straik in matelent ?a1500 Steel Roy Robert 15 (M).
Sa fer he grew in matelent [1700, he grew full matalent] a1500 Lancelot of the Laik 2167, 2658. 1513 Doug. xii. xiv. 121. c1550 Rolland Court of Venus iv. 684; etc.
In my contrair scho grew in matilent 1560 Id. Seven Sages 6708, etc. 1684 G. Sinclair Truth's Victory over Error (1684) To Reader.
[The Quakers], though they look like lambs, yet gall them but a little and you will find them express the matulent and teen of their heart(b) c1420 Wynt. viii. 6012.
Swne efftyr fell a mawvetalent [v. rr. mawtelent] Betwix the Dowglas and Ramsay ?1438 Alex. ii. 112.
The king him sawe, and knew him weill, His mautalent euerilk deill
b. As adj. Enraged, furious.a1578 Pitsc. II. 43/27.
King Harrie brunt as fyre and grew so matulat in anger that [etc.] — ?a1500 Steel Roy Robert (1700) 15 (see (a) above).
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