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Tresonabill, Tresso(u)nabill, Traisonabil, adj. Also: treson(e)able, (tresonablie), tresownabill, tresunabil, tresso(u)nable, tressonabil, -ibill, treasonabill, treasonabil, -able, treassounabill, traso(u)nable. [Treso(u)n(e n. Cf. 17th. c. Eng. treasonable (1634).] Involving or involved in treason, betrayal or disloyalty; faithless, perfidious, treacherous.(a) 1375 Barb. v 552.
The tratour … thocht … How he mycht best bring till ending His tresonabill wndretaking c1420 Wynt. viii 3350.
Tresownabill 1446 Raine N. Durham App. 22.
The said tresonable takyn & withhalding off our castell of Dunbar 1456 14th Rep. Hist. MSS App. iii 10.
Endytyd for … entermettyng … with Inglismen in tresonabill maner c1475 Wall. x 96.
Tresonable folk thair mater wyrkis throu lyst 1512 Reg. Privy S. I 365/1.
His tresonable fenȝeing of the kingis subscriptioun manuale 1526 Reg. Privy S. I 520/2.
Thair tresonable intrometting with the kingis persone 1533 Boece 155.
Be infortunate chance of his flote the Romane army was deliuerit fra the tresonabill [L. infidiis] myschance of fortune a1538 Abell 11*a.
Tresunabil 1584 Gowrie P. 40.
[He was accused] for conceling the tresonablie conspiraci 1610 Crim. Trials III 82.
Committed and perpetrat the most cruel and tresoneable crymes(b) c1420 Wynt. vii 26 (W).
He set him for to sla the king Throu sum tressonable ymagynyng c1420 Wynt. viii 3350 (C).
Tressonabil 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1775.
Tressonabill c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 73.
Thow crop and rute of tratouris tressonable 1531 Bell. Boece (M) II 257.
Maist tressonabill dissavare and levair of thi realme quhen maist dangere occurritt 1533 Bell. Livy I 67/2.
Tressonabil 1548 Digest Justiciary Proc. A 75.
Sindrie tressonabill wryttingis … deserand the said laird … to be helply and gude to the Inglis capitanes c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus i 580.
Luf is truthles … tressonable, Nocht lauchfull, but … lamentable 1557 Justiciary Ct. Rec. MS (Reg. H.) 10 April.
Thomas Andersoune … delatit of arte and parte of the tressonibill … counterfetting of our soverane ladeis cunȝie 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 31.
Thair fals and tressonabill dealing 1570 Sat. P. xviii 18.
Addres ȝow now … His tressonabill dolent deith for to reuenge 1572 Reg. Privy C. II 168.
The bludy and tressonable papistis c1575 Balfour Pract. 600.
Tressounabill 1594 Bk. Univ. Kirk III 828.
Tressounable 1626 Justiciary Cases I 43.
The tressonabill rapt and raveisching of Barbara Scrymgeor(c) 1531 Bell. Boece II 132.
Thir treasonabil Saxonis turnit thair mindis fra amite to feid 1566 Crim. Trials I i 487.
Treasonabill 1572 Crim. Trials I ii 33.
Treasonabill a1578 Pitsc. I 91/24.
Treassounabill a1651 Calderwood IV 475.
Then hath your fact beene unlawfull, wrong, inique, treasonable(d) 1549 Compl. 23/7.
Oure ald enemeis, be traisonabil seditione, takkand violent possessione of … the strynthis ande castellis of the bordours 1596 Dalr. I 174/18.
Be the trasounable trane of a certane hiland pyper, he was put doune 1596 Dalr. II 402/29.
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