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Waryit, ppl. adj. Also: waryt, waryed, -itt, varyit, -eit, warijt, -et, wareide, -eit, warȝit, wearried. [ME waried (c1250), wared (Cursor M.), waryed (14th c.).] Cursed; reviled, hated.attrib. a1400 Leg. S. xxviii 526.
This waryt jug, in stul set, Gert Margaret son befor hym fet(b) c1475 Wall. iv 747.
O feble mynd … O waryit witt … That me has brocht in to this myschefull chance c1475 Wall. iv 761.
My waryed werd in warld I mon fullfill c1475 Wall. viii 1377.
Wa worth the curssyt cace! In waryit tym that Hesilryg was born! a1500 Quare Jel. 239.
And namely by thair varyit tyrannyis The cruelteis the wikkitnes that lyis In jelousy and false ymagynyng 1513 Doug. ii iii 38 (Sm.).
Warȝit 1533 Bell. Livy I 106/9.
This wod & waryit woman 1533 Bell. Livy II 160/1.
The goddis gevis neuer support to curst & waryit creaturis 1570 Sat. P. xxiv 89.
In waryit tyme that bischop hes bene borne(c) c1475 Wall. ii 189.
O wareide suerd, of tempyr neuir trew, Thi fruschand blaid in presoune sone me threw c1500 Rowll Cursing 57 (M).
The crippill the cramp the colica The worme the wareit vedumfa 1513 Doug. iii i 113.
Thai war al of a will … To pas furth of this wareit realm of Trace And for toleif that pollut herbry place a1568 Bann. MS 93b/43.
That wareit feild we may sair ban Quhair did our wirthy prince decese a1568 Pedder C. 59.
Me … levis lyk ane wareit wreche(d) a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 787 (Asl.).
Pas warijt wretchis … To the perpetuale fyre & pane of hell a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 360.
That warijt wolf, wild fra wit & ressoun, Passit to the lambe a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 293.
The wariet apill of the forbiddin tre That Adame eitpredic. 1531 Bell. Boece II 107.
He maid ane fals and supersticius rite, richt waryit [M. waryitt] to mankind a1585 Polwart Flyt. 607 (T).
Sua knavishe, canker[d], execrabill And vareit [H. wearried] ane wicht