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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Wast(e)ry(e, Waistrie, n. Also: wasturrie. [Wast(e v.] Extravagance, wasteful spending or using (of something).(1) a1570-86 Arbuthnot in Maitl. F. 50/55.
Woun be ane wretche and in to waistrie spent c1590 Fowler II 114/10.
A prence … exerciseth bot his niggardnes on thame quha ar his mignons and favorites, that ar noe more enriched by his presents and wasterye 1605-6 Welsh Forty-eight Serm. 118 (see Wastedness n.). 1623 Melrose P. 544.
I haue fund the smart of wasturrie in that pert suffisientlie allredie 1645 Rutherford Tryal Faith (1743) 234.
The blot of his wastry, and the shame of his riotous youth a1658 Durham Clavis Cantici 287.
Even as Judas, … nicknames that good work wrought upon Christ by that honest woman, calling it wastry 1661 R. Baillie in Lauderdale P. I 96.
Through his wastery, hes left … in debt(2) 1601 Reg. Privy C. VI 205.
The grit waistrie of wyne drukin in tavernis be a nowmer of commoun artisans and rascall multitud