A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Instede, -steid, -sted, phr. comb. [The phr. in stede (of), written as one word; e.m.E. insteed (1595), ME. in sted (a 1300), etc.: see Stede n.] Instead (of). —c1420 Wynt. i. 409.
That schype … Grownd it tuk instede [v.rr. in stede, steid] off hawyn 15.. Clar. iv. 1314.
This … hat … Insteid of it upon hir heid scho set 1646 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 70.
Insted of stryving to mak peace
