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Trespasso(u)r, n. Also: trespassoure, -ar(e, trespasour, tresspassour, traspasour. [ME and e.m.E. trespassour (Piers Plowman), trespasour (Trevisa), trespasser (1590), OF trespasseor, AF trespassour.]

1. Transgressor, wrongdoer, offender, sinner. a1400 Leg. S. xxxviii 263.
As trespassoure agane Goddis law
1490 Irland Mir. III 132/23.
For caus thou has gret power … thou art empriour … and for caus my power is litle, I am callit a thef & spulȝeour … And oft tymes we se at … gret fautouris and trespassouris ledis thame that ar mekle les to the gebet
a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 558.
As trespassour ȝe follow Him cruely, But I na caus can find Him for to sla

2. One who offends against the law of a country, esp. Scotland.(a) 1397 Acts I 208/1.
Ilke schiref sal tak … enquerrez gif ony be common destroyouris … sic trespassouris the schiref sal do al his besines til arest thaim … til appere at the next iustice aire
c1405 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 59.
And forthi giffe the trewis sall stande it lyes to yhour heenes to se for chastyninge of trespassouris
14.. Burgh Laws c. 93 (B).
The kyngys outlaws or syk trespassorys that may nocht be haldyn in the pese of the kyrk
14.. Burgh Laws c. 82 (B, index).
Trespassare
1442 Raine N. Durham App. 105.
Granntand till hym our full … autoritie … trespasours to punyche
1473 Peebles Chart. 20.
We will that the fawtouris and trespassouris thareof be punyst and correct
1483–4 Acts II 165/2.
For the apprehending … of the masterfull trespassouris that ar fugitiue fra his lawis
1500 Acta Conc. II 408.
Tresspassouris
1533 Boece 64b.
Quhen ony cryme occurrit … the trespassoure [etc.]
1549 Compl. 118/13.
Trespassar
1560 Rolland Seven S. 1313.
The law is maid to punische trespassouris All geuin to euill and mischant transgressouris
c1575 Balfour Pract. 547.
Theives, men-slayeris, reivaris, murthereris nor na utheris trespassouris
1609 Skene Reg. Maj. ii 160b.
All lands lords, … of all notabill limmereis and thefes, sal present the saids trespassours before the king
a1633 Hope Major Pract. II 38.
Trespassors
(b) c1554 Corr. M. Lorraine 379.
With the sherrefis to beir the burdyngis for the punesment of traspasouris

b. specif. One who offends against the Forest Law by entering another's land illegally or doing damage there. 14.. Acts I 328/2.
Gif ony wylde best be fundyn dede … and the trespassour be nocht fundyn [etc.]
c1575 Balfour Pract. 140.
Gif ony persoun happinis to se ony trespassour within the boundis of the forest, takand or away-caryand ony wild beast
1609 Skene Reg. Maj. (Latin) ii 19b marg.
Si aliquis extraneus intraverit in forestam [marg. In the statut of trespassours in parks]

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