A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1627
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Sit(e, Syt(e, n.1 Also: sytt, sith, sight. [ME (mainly north.) sit (Orm), site (Cursor M.), syt(e (15th c.), later only Sc., ON *sýt, var. of sút grief, sorrow, affliction.] Care, sorrow, grief; fury.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints ii 890.
He mon euir dwel in syt [: delyt] a1400 Legends of the Saints xxii 512, etc. ?1438 Alex. ii 40.
Allace that was baith syte and sin For thair he deit a1450 Fifteen Ois 92.
Haue mynd of dollour and of sit a1450 Fifteen Ois 147.
For the bitter suerd of sit That thou in hert can smyt a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 450.
Sowpit in syte I say with sair siching [etc.] 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 928.
Tuiching the proces of my panefull site a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 1011.
Allace, my hert is now sowpit in site 1513 Doug. vi ix 80.
Syk wikkyt and condampnyt wightis, als tyte As thai cum in that dolly pyte of syte 1513 Doug. ix ii 72.
The wild wolf … constrenyt is in extreme syt 1528 Lynd. Dreme 333.
With sobbyng, syching, sorrow, and with syte 1567 Satirical Poems iii 159.
Sa mot hir hart be fillit full of syte, As Herois was for Leanderis deth, Hir self to slay a1568 Scott xxxiv 38.
Ȝe preis ay to persew Thair syte and ȝour awin sorrow a1568 Bannatyne MS 132a/18.
Quhat mendis it ane man to mvrn In syte to sitt quhat mendis it a1585 Maitland Quarto MS 144/83.
Quhen syt and sorrow semis superlatiue(b) 1572 Satirical Poems xxxii 73.
Sen with sith ȝe Commounis do complene(c) a1627 Craig v 7.
On the … barke of each … tree, This diton … shall … written bee: In sorrow and sight slayne For her heere I remaynepl. ?1438 Alex. ii 10681.
(Sa God my sytis ceis) Thow suld be vengit na war the peis a1500 Henr. Praise of Age 10.
This warld … Besoucht with syn and othir sytis mo
