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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1659-1672
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(Tristing,) Trysting, ppl. adj. [Trist(e v.] a. That happens as a result of events coinciding; coincidental, fortuitous. b. That conciliates or mediates; conciliatory. —a. 1659 A. Hay Diary 85.
I blissed the Lord that I found the child so weell in health … and that … the mother also … was much better … which was a singular trysting mercie —b. 1672 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 680.
The Lords, in regard they were informed that … 8000 merks was offered by the defenders, and 9000 craved by the pursuers, they, in a trysting manner, divided the odd 1000 merks contraverted 1672 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 706.
The Lords, by a kind of trysting interlocutor, assoilyied both parties … the one from falsehood and the other from calumny
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