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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Trubillit, Trublit, ppl. adj. Also: trublyt, troublit, -ed, tribulit. [ME and e.m.E. trubled (a1325), troubled (c1450).]

1. Of persons, their minds, spirits, etc.: Afflicted, agitated, overwrought.(a) c1475 Wall. (1570) ii 427.
He micht nocht speik, bot kissit him tenderly, His trubillit [L. troublit] spreit was in ane extasy c1475 Wall. ix 316.
Off kingis fer I dar mak no rahers, My febill mynd, my trublyt spreit rewers c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 160/21.
Thy trublit gaist sall neir moir be degest … Quhill that ane abbot … fle up in the air 1513 Doug. xiii iv 90.
Thir woful citesanys … Ruschand with trublit mynd … Baith heir and thar 1549 Compl. 23/24.
I red … the thrid of Ysaye, the quhilk causit my trublit spreit to trymmyl for dredour 15.. Clar. iii 926.
When scho was so weirrie, formurnit, and forweipit, With trubillit spreit and frayitlie, scho sleipit(b) 1569 Q. Mary in Facs. Nat. MSS III lix.
Releif of our troublit and afflicht sprite(c) 1562-3 Winȝet I 96/20.
As a … hertlie mother, haifand compassioun of hir tribulit sones

2. a. Of a state of affairs: Disturbed, disorderly, turbulent. b. Of clouds: Lowering, stormy. c. Of water: Turbid.a. 1596 Crim. Trials I ii 363.
[The king] haueing oftymes tane grite panes and trauellis for quieting of the troublit estate of the North Cuntreyb. c1590 Fowler II 42/25.
The light of the sune is obscurit & darknit be the thiknes of trublit cludsc. 1632 Lithgow Trav. i 12.
The river Tyber [is] of a troubled and muddy colour