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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Requit, -quite, v. Also: -quyt, -qwit; -quyte. P.p. requeat, -queit. [e.m.E. requyte (1529), -quitte (a1553), f. re- and -quit, -quite Quite v.] 1. tr. To avenge (an injury or wrong). a1578 Pitsc. I 24/5.
Schir Thomas Boyd slew Allane Stewart … quhilk deid was requytted schone thaireftir

2. To repay (a favour) in kind; to repay (a person) for good with kindness or evil.(1) 1623–4 Southesk MSS 723/2.
And wherein I can any way bee able to requit your kyndness(2) pres. 1572 Facs. Nat. MSS III lxiii.
As power may extende shall indeuor myself to requite yowr lordschippes 1591 Reg. Privy C. IV 627.
Thay … utteris … signis of freindship [etc.] … quhome giff the saidis complenaris suld requite be this kynd of doing, his majestie may considder quhat inconvenient will fall oute —p.t. a1578 Pitsc. II 266/10.
God saw all thair wrangous doingis and requytit thame atlast —p.p. 1598 Melvill Propine 134.
Should ye haue thus requeat Your Father Joua & your Lord? 1610 Rep. Hist. MSS, Var. Coll. V 115.
My extraordinar cair of his effairis … maist ingraitlie requeit agaen be his lordship

3. To relinquish, surrender one's claim to (of) (a holding of land). 1681 Red Bk. Menteith II 192.
That he might reqwit of that holding of the Mose, and tak that roume holden of the kinge