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Wont, Wontit, ppl. adj. Also: wontt, wonnt, wonth, vont, woynt, wount(e, wownt, vount, voant, wunt, wnt, wint, wynt, wonit, wonted, -id, wonntit, -ed, vonted, wountit, -ed, vountit, woontit, wintit, wentit. [ME and e.m.E. wont (Wyclif), woonted (1408), woned (c1450), wonted (1553).] attrib. and predic. Customary, usual; established; ordinary. Also, aucht and wont, due and customary, see Aw v. 5 b (3) and wont and usit, wintit and useit, usit and wont, according to use and custom, see Usit ppl. adj.(l) c1420 Wynt. v 4894.
Quhen Crystyn fay Illumynyd thaim … Syn it wes hard for till forbere, As clerkys sayis, a wont [W. wount] manere 1433 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 286.
Doand wont seruice aucht and vsit til vs and til oure kirk 1434–5 Reg. St. A. 424.
The said Waltyr is oblist to kep the marchis … atoure the wont maner of ald tym 1461 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 362.
To be haldyn … the forsaide landys … be all thare rychtwys wont merkis merchis & dyvisis a1538 Abell 83b.
He … prayit thaim to resaif him nocht as lord bot hes thare wont brothir. For inwertlie he wes a werray monk … & wtwertlie Paip 1541 Inchcolm Chart. 71.
Payand … ȝerele … the soume of tenne pundis of penny maile at tua wint termes in the ȝere Witsonday and Mertymes in winter 1656 Misc. Spald. C. V 231.
Whosoewir … salbe fund demming the said stryp [sc. of water], but only suffering the same to runne in the wount cowrs sall pay [etc.](b) 1554 Knox III 88.
Thair wordis sprung frome a wontit, constant, and fervent faith 1588 King Cat. App. 31b.
Behauld O Lord by Thy vonted godlines Thow comes to confort me 1589 Lett. Jas. VI to Bruce 279.
Sua resting in this to your wounted cair and diligence c1590 Fowler I 65/207.
My hairis and wonnted flight wer turned be tymes ecclips 1592 Warrender P. (SHS) II 177.
Nether craftie surmyses … nor credit of quhasumever could caus your Majesties wontid maist gratious guid will seame diminischit … toward me 1593 Conv. Burghs I 414.
The burghis of Coupar and Sanct Androis to reforme all wonntit abusis of thair mettis of pect and furlott, and to conforme the samyn to the stane of Linlithquow 1596–7 Misc. Spald. C. I 85.
Efter the … recept of thi droiggis, the said Alexander delie mendit, and returnit agane to his wountit heltht 1597 Misc. Spald. C. I 112.
He com newir to his wentit heltht of body agane 1600 Elgin Rec. II 78.
The elderis to be present ane hour befoir the vountit conventioun a1605 Montg. Sonn. ix 12.
Wonted verteu ay the grener grouis 1609 Crim. Trials III 65.
Thinkand thairbye to awert your Maiestes woontit fawor from me 1614 Fraserburgh Kirk S. 28a (16 Jan.).
[She] is commandit to produce in testimonie … quhair hir wontit remaneing wes betuixt and Witsonday 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 63/33.
Then floods runne on your wounted course of olde, Which God by nature dewly hes prouyded 1630 Cochran-Patrick Coinage II 21.
Being crediblie informed of the prejudice arysing to that our kingdome by the abundance of forraine coyne current there and great skarsetie of our awin … yow [are to] take suche speedie course for redressing of the said abuse and for bringing in the wounted bulyeoun 1657 Elgin Rec. I 303.
For selling of sadler grath and lorimer worke the merchands to haue their wonted libertie(2) c1450-2 Howlat 164 (A).
A college of cardinalis … With red hattis on hed in haile takynnyng Off that deir dignite with worschipe ay wont 1473 Reg. Cupar A. I 166.
Ilke man sal gife … the tende fre multyr and the stok thyrl as wunt wes a1500 Prestis of Peblis 1189.
With vther freinds thou was sa weill ay wount, To me thow had ful lytil clame or count c1535 Reg. Soltre 213.
The sacrister … sall hald the kyrk in all honeste … as wes wynt(3) 1472 Reg. Cupar A. I 162.
Wunt 1473 Reg. Cupar A. I 190.
He payand … ȝerly … of standand male x lib. of vsuale mone … with aucht and wnt duseruice 1485 Mill Mediæv. Plays 132.
The said abbot doand his dewiteis tharfor as acht & wount was 1509 Reg. Privy S. I 296/2.
Payand … malys and dewiteis aucht and woynt 1519–20 Stirling B. Rec. I 2.
Wille Dic enterit to the fredoum of burgesry, under the aicht aucht and wount, and sall pay xiiij s. 1526 Red Bk. Menteith II 330.
Cariagis, and all vther deviteis and dewseruice aucht and wonth 1531 Boyd Fam. P. No. 6 (3 Feb.).
The superiorite of the lands under writtin … to be haldin of our souerane lord for seruice aucht and wount 1535 Reg. Privy S. II 261/2.
With uther service and dewiteis aucht and wonit alanerlie 1543 Reg. Privy S. III 67/1.
The custumes of salmond aucht and wount 1543 Reg. Privy S. III 72/2.
Ane lettir … makand hir mylk-wiffe to the quenis grace … and gevand to hir feis and dewiteis aucht and wount thairof 1581 Perth Guildry 405.
All baxtaris … sall pay aucht & wount of multer & grynd at the saidis myllis & nane wtheris(4) 1490–1 Liber Melros 600.
With the samyn met and mesour as was wount and wsyt of befor a1540 Freiris Berw. 30 (B).
Twa of the Jacobyne freiris As thay wer wont and vsit mony ȝeiris To pas amang thair brethir vpaland Wer send [etc.] 1556 Reg. Cupar A. II 262.
Hef in reddines ane leiche of hundis for volf and fox, with hunting quhen we or our seruandis pleis, with all wthir arrege and carrege, vsit and vont 1585 Acts III 409/2.
The office of scherefschip … with all rychtis … and priuilegis vsit and vount 1588–9 Prot. Bk. J. Inglis 21 Feb.
The entre of the said George in & to the said croft of land … salbe … the day & dait heirof, … be all reycht marchis wsit & wynt 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Breve.
In the auld lawes … sindrie brieues hes bene vsed and wounte, quhairof mention is maid 1612 Balmerino and L. Chart. i 76.
Payand … at the termes vsit and wonnt 1661 Galloway P. 4 Feb.
Wontt 1674 Misc. Spald. C. V 232.
Peyinge boall as vsit and voant 1676 Forbes Baron Ct. 303.
The silver dewties the said year to be peyed preceislie at the termes of peyment vsed and wownt(b) 1600 Aberd. B. Rec. II 214.
The braid linkis of this burght as the wintit and vseit place apointit for the samen to the inhabitantis