A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1546-1590
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(Quite,) Quyte, n.. a. Payment of what is due (Quite v. 5 and adj. 2). b. To get quyte, to receive one wrong in return for another, to receive tit for tat (Quite v. 1-3). —1546 Aberd. B. Rec. in Mill Mediæval Plays 156.
And gif ony honest man … that ma guidly gif his wages ressauis him nocht … the bailȝeis … caus him haue his quyte of thame c1590 Fowler I 32/162.
Yet he who … dois in fraude delyte He suld not muche be greued be if he get quyte for quyte;
