Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Retering, -tiring, vbl. n. Also: reteir-, retyr-, ratir- and -inge, -yng. [Retere v.] a. The action of retiring in senses 1, 4, 9, 10 and 11 b of Retere v. b. Payment of a debt, with consequent cancellation or withdrawal of the bond by the creditor. See the quot. for 1679 at a (5). Cf. also later Sc. legal usage. c attrib. Providing an opportunity for privacy.a. (1) 1635 Maxwell Mem. I 441.
By reteiring and fechting, he hes wrocht moir hurt to the enemy then he could haive done by oppin bettal(2) ?1548 Corr. M. Lorraine 252.
Prayng me to remane that wtheris suld nocht have occasione to remuff throw my ratiryng(3) 1570 Southesk MSS 722/1.
For reteiringe of her forces fourthe of our said reallme(4) 1594–5 Cal. Sc. P. XI 549.
[For] retering [the prince out of Mar's hands](5) 1661 Old Ross-shire I 150.
Given to Bailȝie Suttie for reteiring of the laird's bond … £300 1679 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 246.]
[It being the common custom of this kingdom to extinguish bonds by payment, retiring and cancelling thereof without a discharge, unless it had been registrate, or infeftment following thereon 1681 Stair Inst. i vii § 14.
An executor for whom simple retiring of the bond will not be sufficient without discharge or assignation Ib. iv iii § 2.
Retiringb. 1684 Fountainhall Decis. I 268.
What they know of the trust or manner of retiring that debtc. 1647 Inverness Rec. II 196.
attrib. Makeing always the toune of Innernes his reteiring place 1651 Blairs P. 41.
Catches or priuat retyring parts in which English Catholickes use to hyde preests and masse graith