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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Dispit(e, Dispyt(e, v. Also: dyspyt(e, -pite, dispyit. [e.m.E. dispyte (1530), var. of despyte, Despite v.] tr. To regard with contempt or dislike; to despise or hate. 1375 Barb. iv. 596.
The land was then All occupyit with Ynglis men; That dyspitit … the douchty kyng a1400 Leg. S. xxxviii. 140.
Quhene scho had sic sermone mad, That he the warld suld dispit but bad a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 480.
Thoucht now I stand dispitit as a pure c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 172.
The larbar lukis of thy lang lene craig … Garris men dispyt thar flesche 1533 Bell. Livy I. 145/33.
Sum tyme provokand euery ane of thame to singulare batall, and sum tymes dispitand thame all c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2616.
Thocht I agane ydolatrye indyte, Or thame dispyte, that wyl nocht ȝit refus it 1562 Inverness B. Rec. I. 96.
That … he rebuittit Nycoll Kar beand baillie … prouocand the said baillie and dispittand him a1578 Pitsc. I. 34/13.
To cause himself … to be dispytit and lyghtlieit be the wholl nobilietie 1596 Dalr. II. 104/14.
Al his nobilitie bure him at mortal feid, dispiting him abone mesour

b. intr. To disdain, be indignant. 1596 Dalr. I. 177/8.
A certane nobleman of Britannie … dispytes to heir that edicte