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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Trato(u)ry, Trayto(u)ry, n. Also: tratourie, -orye, -orie, -owry, -ery, trayto(u)rie, traitorie. [ME and e.m.E. treytory, trayterye (both Manning), traytory (14th c.), traitorie (1402), traytourye (c1450), tratourye (c1537).] Treachery; treason.(a) 1375 Barb. iv 22.
It was fer wer than tratoury For to betreys sic a persoune 1375 Barb. x 327 (C).
Thai mystrowit hym of tratory For that he spokin had vith the king. And, for that ilk mystrowing, Thai tuk him and put in presoun c1400 Troy-bk. ii 8 (C).
Tratorye c1400 Troy-bk. ii 386.
Sene the prest Thoas … Hath lever peryse the cite Of hys tratory c1420 Wynt. ix 2358.
Thir twa … Had bene the King off Ynglandis men, And armyt agane hym ware: for-thi Thai ware accusit off tratowry a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 271.
He wes full of subtell tratory a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 334.
Peter said,' … or I suld sic tratoury persew … leuer de wald I' a1538 Abell 103b.
This wes the first tratory be the surnem of Dowglas 1535 Stewart 1842.
Tratorie 1560 Rolland Seven S. 3095.
This knicht committit tratourie That staill fra the authoritie Outher greit thing or smaw a1570-86 Maitl. F. 171/56.
Vnkyndnes … Is mother till all tratorie 1572 Cochran-Patrick Coinage I cxlv.
His said regent nobilitie and faithfull subiectis to repres thair tratorie … ar forcit to hald … in garreson men of weir 1596 Dalr. II 169/34.
Tha thocht to reuenge Hume … outher in publick or priuat, in plane battell or trayne of tratourie c1610 Melville Mem. 57.
They … cryed out vpon his tratery, … and schot at him at his entre in Londoun(b) c1400 Troy-bk. ii 1262 (C).
Traytoury 14.. Burgh Laws c. 31 (B).
Gyf it be of traytory or of thyft than he aucht to defend hym wyth bataile 1570 Sat. P. xiii 23.
Traytorie 1571 Bann. Memor. 160.
Hid treasone and traytorie 1596 Dalr. I 350/13.
The Cumin … quhome for his traytourie with a sword he strykes(c) a1597-1617 Hist. Jas. VI (1825) 222.
Traitorie 1596–1600 Warrender P. (SHS) II 425.
Of their preconsavit rebellion and traitorie