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: 1475-1550
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Refute, n.1 Also: refut, rafuyt. [ME and e.m.E. refut (a1325), reffuyt, refute, -fuyte, OF refuite (late 12th c. in Larousse) (a) refuge, f. refuir to flee, seek refuge, L. refugere. See also Refuten.2] a. Shelter, or protection, from danger or trouble. b. Applied to a person or place: A refuge; a recourse. c. Either a or b above. Cf. also Refuge n. 1 b.a. a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 94 (Thynne).
[Cresseid] Right priuely without felowship or refute [Ch. on fute] Dissheuelde passed out of the town c1500 Makculloch MS xii 5.
Ruyt of rafuyt, of mercy spring & well c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 185.
Scho … Askit hir choise of archeris in refuteb. c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ix 974.
Othir refut as than he wyst off nayn a1550 Lang Rosair 64.
Virgin Mary, … the singular refute of synnaris
