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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Slicht, Slight, Sleight, Slate, v.¹ P.p. also slichttit, slightid. [e.m.E. slight (Shakespeare), sleight (1612); Slicht adj.¹] tr. To treat with indifference or disdain; to fail to show proper regard for; to let down; to neglect, ignore or scorn. Also const. to do something. b. To reject.(1) 1647 Glasgow B. Rec. II 118.
That the fleschouris … hes slichttit the towne this day altogither be presentting no flesch to the mercat 1648 Glasgow Trades House 261.
That … they had granted ane presentacioune to Gilbert Buchannan … to that … bursarie … and … that the said Gilbert had slichtit and left the samyne 1650 Falkirk Par. Rec. I 170.
Johne Hairt deponit that actis of discipline are slichtit 1661 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 200.
Ordinances … anent keeping secret the counsell of this brught much slichtit and neglectit, and the counsell effairs much devulgit 1677 Aberd. Council Lett. VI 68.
Efter you have … signified how much this brughe is prejudgit and slichtit upon the forsaid accompt you ar to [etc.](b) 1654 Robertson Cullen Ch. Ann. 90.
She seemed to slight repentance 1666 Jurid. Rev. XXIV 22.
I wrote to my lord Annandale … but it was slightit, and I never got an answer 1671 Kingarth Par. Rec. 69.
If they slight the Sessions indulgence or be found again in the like fault [etc.] 1673 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Processes No. 177.
Shoe will by no meanis … keip hir promise bot intends to slight me 1673 Laing MSS 387.
Slightid 1675 Kirkcaldy B. Rec. MS 28 June.
Finding that what progress hes bein don this yeir to be successful and substantiall which being slighted and not exactlie prosecute … may render all your paynes … unprofitable a1676 Guthry Mem. 177.
At the beginning … Buchanan's treatise … was looked upon as an oracle, this coming forth, it was slighted, as not anti-monarchical enough a1676 Guthry Mem. 212.
One was of 80,000 l. sterling to be allowed them for the cabbage the Scots had devoured: Hereby our great men saw how they were slighted by the English 1686 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII 26.
That postadge … from Aberdeen to Edinburgh wes very near given over and slighted(c) 1634 Fugitive Poetry II ix 8/7.
Sleight not these sorrowes teares a1658 Durham Comm. Rev. 397, 398.
Which should stir us up to search, and not sleight what he revealeth ?c1675 J. Gordon Hist. I 37.
The Kinge's weacknesse … made them sleight his commandes(d) a1660 Sempill P. 8/64.
Hereticks … False miscreants, they shame the Masse and slate it(2) 1691 Cramond Kirk S. III 3 Dec.
He slighted altogether to collect for the pooreb. 1657 Balfour Ann. III 95.
That if he had beliued the reports [etc.] … bot … He had … slighted all such reports 1657 Balfour Ann. IV 213. 1666–78 McCrie Mem. Veitch 403.
For these reasons, this motion of pistoling him was slighted