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Rut(e, Ruit, v.¹ Also: ruitt; rutt; root(e; rout; rote. [ME and e.m.E. rote(n (c1200), roote(n (c1325), rout (1591); Rut(e n.]

1. passive. To be rutit, to be firmly fixed or implanted; to be established. a. Of persons, in a mode of behaviour, way of life, etc. b. Of non-material things, in (also at, be) a person or thing. Also without complement.a. a1400 Leg. S. vii 746.
Thare … syne, That thai lange tyme ware rutit in 1490 Irland Mir. I 13/36.
Thi counsalouris … suld be … rutit in meiknes and piete 1513 Doug. iv Prol. 9.
Ȝour fykkil seyd … Rutyt in delyte, welth, and fude delicate c1520-c1535 Nisbet Coll. ii 7.
Be ye rutit and biggit abone in him [sc. Christ], and confermit in the beleue 1560 Rolland Seven S. 10737.
Wa worth the wickit wyfe, Rutit in sturt and stryfeb. (1) ?1438 Alex. ii 6655.
For scarsnes in ȝow … sa rutit is That [etc.] 1490 Irland Mir. I 65/20.
The twa thingis that oure lif is rutit in … are naturale humedite and proporcionabile heit thar to 1535 Stewart 17066.
The rancour is so ruttit at thair hart 1549 Compl. 72/27.
The natural loue of ȝour natiue cuntre suld be inseperablye rutit in ȝour hartis a1550 Tayis Bank 80.
Rychtest in my remmembrance That rose is rutit grene 1567 Jurid. Rev. XIV 370.
It is tinsel baith of their bodies and soulis, gif God's Word be not ruted in them 1567 G. Ball. 74.
The prydefull luking of my eine, Lat nocht be rutit in my hart a1568 Bann. MS 83a/5.
Say weill is rutit be man sum deill Bot do weill only to God dois appeill(2) 1596 Dalr. II 290/13.
Quhen heresie deiper was ruted

c. To be settled in a place. a1540 Misc. Bann. C. III 40.
Quhen thir Saxones war rutit in the land

2. intr. To become established. c1420 Ratis R. 149.
Sum wyce will rut and haf repar a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 294 (Arund.).
Vertu thairin will nouther rute nor ground 1535 Stewart 6345.
With roustie rancour that ruttis of the hart a1568 Scott i 111.
That rycht and reasoun in thy realme may rute

3. tr. To establish or implant (a quality, way of life, etc.) in (into) a person. c1490 Porteous Noblenes 172/19 (Asl.).
Herfore he that will be ane werray noble, stable & rute in his hert thir xij wertuis and excers thaim daly 1531 Bell. Boece I lx.
Be … daily cumpany of thaim [sc. Englishmen], we began to rute thair langage and superflew maneris in oure breistis 1596 Dalr. I 210/6.
To festne and to rute it [sc. religion] into the hartes of wandireres by the way

b. To settle (a person) in a habit or way of life. a1500 Bernardus 226.
For it fosteris and rutis tham in thar vice 1531 Bell. Boece II 504.
I think it is ane gret sin to rut thy pepill into sic vennomus maneris

c. To establish firmly or permanently (a feeling) for (towart) another person. 1529 St. P. Henry VIII IV 570.
The mony gret actis ȝe have done for the weil of ws … quhilkis … as we grow in aige cummis till our remembrance, confermand and ruttand towart ȝou our hertlie [lufe and] kindnes

4. To remove (a person or thing) from (out of, furth of, fra) a place or person by force, violence or strong effort.(1) a1500 Henr. Fab. 1795.
Luke to the lint … Ȝone is the thing … that we, Quhill it wes seid, suld rute furth off the eird 1567 G. Ball. 104.
Thay sall us rute from the ground 1573 Sempill Sat. P. xxxix 305.
I am in dout geue ȝour estait sall stand, Bot sone be rutit fra this realme, I feir a1578 Pitsc. II 115/24.
This gowerment and autorietie … salbe ruttit frome zow 1596 Dalr. I 210/18.
Partlie ruteng the Pelagiane hæresie out of thair hartes c1615 Chron. Kings 148.
Thinkis to rutt thame out of Annerdeill 1641 Bk. Carlaverock II 138.
We wilbe alse qwyte ruited furthe of this kingdome(2) 1567 G. Ball. 97.
Quha … dois blaspheme the kynde … sall rutit be furth of memoriall a1578 Pitsc. I 85/25.
Mair, it had bene goode for the commone weill of Scottland that the earle … had bene rootted out of memorie

5. To rute out (also, up, furth) (a person or community, or a material or non-material thing), to remove completely; to eradicate, wipe out.Also const. from, furth of (a place); also, out off memory.(1) 1529 Lynd. Complaynt 431.
Assentaris to ydolatrie … frome thare realmes wer rutit oute 1556 Lauder Off. Kings 481.
Vntyll that ȝe be rutit oute, This sall nocht faill, withouttin doute 1567 G. Ball. 182.
Inglis prelatis … For thair abuse ar rutit out 1614 Denmylne MSS in Highland P. III 162.
To rut out one pestiferous clan(b) 1562-3 Winȝet II 53/1.
For this cause, the auctouris of hæresie ar nocht haistelie be God ruitit out 1567 Anderson Collect. Mary II 248.
I sall be cairfull to ruit out all heretykis and enemyis to the trew wirschip of God 1567 Sat. P. vi 60.
All ȝour enemeis rudely ruit out 1570 Ib. xiii 88.
And neuer leif thame [sc. traitors] till thay be ruitit out 1615 Denmylne MSS in Highland P. III 263.
That his majestie may be graciouslye moved not to ȝield to my vnfreindis, to ruit me and my whole race out 16.. Hist. Kennedy 22.
How to ruitt out this hous of Bargany out off memory(c) 1554 Knox III 257 title page.
Take hede that the Lorde roote thee not out(d) 1585 Reg. Privy C. IV 40.
As Jeroboam [etc.] … wer roted oute(2) 1563 Ferg. Answer in Tracts 12.
To rute out supersticious and pestilent Papistrie 1567 Reg. Privy C. I 536.
To rute out, distroy, and allutirlie subvert all monumentis of ydolatre a1581 Misc. Wodrow Soc. 296.
The spreit of God … is nevir … clene rutit out bot by death 1613 Crim. Trials III 245.
Of purpois thairby to haif extirpat and ruteit out the name of barbaritie furth of thais pairtis 1619 Misc. Bann. C. I 211.
The king's majestie has promised to root out that toune(3) 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 273.
All professouris of Christis evangle, whome thei terme Lutherianes, Hugonotes, and Calvenistis, salbe routed vp(4) 1570 Sat. P. xiii 21.
Thay suld distroyit be And rutit furth clene out of memorie