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Faillit, Failit, ppl. a. Also: faillid, -ed, failyt, falit. [Late ME. faylled (1490), f. Fail(l,v. Chiefly Sc. Cf. Failȝeit.] Impaired in strength or vigour; enfeebled, weakened, esp. by age or infirmity. 1375 Barb. iii. 326.
The king saw that he sa wes failyt, And that he ek wes fortrawaillyt 1456 Hay II. 5/6.
Nature in him was sa faillid throu febilnesse, that [etc.] 1535 Stewart 41285.
Malcome … The kirk of Durhame foundit … That faillit wes ane lang tyme of befoir 1584 Acts III. 369/2.
To cut and carie away all wod and timmer … being faillit … for na vther vse bot for fyire
b. In attributive use. 1456 Hay II. 5/18.
Sa that nane … suld se him in his failit elde 1559 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 42.
The auld faillit burgessis and craftismen 1561 Ib. 110.
To the support of pure misterfull falit brethirne 1574 Edinb. Test. III. 76 b.
Ane auld failit naig estimat to xl s. 1631 Stirling's Royal Lett. II. 536.
Diverse old and failled wood in our park of Falkland
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