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Quotation dates: 1500, 1577-1578, 1663-1698
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(Outit,) Outtit, ppl. a. Also: out(t)ed, -id, -ied; ut(t)ed. [e.m.E. outed (1648, Milton), Out v.]
1. Of a horse or mare: ? Put out to grass in old age. c1500 Rowll Cursing 170.
Than is thair nocht bot sadill & brydill Thir outtit [M. cuttit] meiris hes lang gane ydill
2. ? Projecting. a1578 Pitsc. (1728) 107.
The ship … was ten foot thick in the wall, outted [v.rr. cuttit, -ed] jests of oak in her wall
3. Of (chiefly) ministers, also others in public positions: Expelled or dismissed. Also used absol.Applied chiefly to those ejected from office for religious or political dissent in the later 17th c.: see also Out v. 1 b.(1) 1663 J. Fraser in Select Biographies II. 190.
I … took up my chamber in a godly man's house, an outed minister 1665 Lauderdale P. I. 234.
The caus of most of this trubell … is ocasioned by sum outied ministers against uhom bothe counsill and comission hes prosided aganst 1666 Lanark Presb. 106.
Against conventicles or hearing of outed ministers 1667 Argyll-Lauderdale Lett. 56. 1668 Lauderdale P. II. 103.
Outid 1668 Ib. 117.
Outtid 1669 Laing MSS. I. 373. 1669 Galloway Synod 134. 1670 Acts VIII. 9/1. 1674 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 180. c1679 Kirkton Hist. 367. 1680 Fountainhall Decis. I. 113. c1680 W. Row Blair 418. 1684 Law Memor. (1818) 141. 1689 Leven & Melv. P. 180.
That act that … restores the outed Presbiterian ministers that ar alive 1691 Stirling B. Rec. II. 338.
Given to a Jerman protestant minister that wes banished his countrie. … Item to tuo other outted ministers 1690 Shields Grievances and Sufferings 10. 1695 Foulis Acc. Bk. 179.
To Mr. John Dundas to give ane outed minister for [etc.] 1698 Seafield Corr. 245.
Begging he will put the lawes in execution against some outed ministers for their scandalous irregularities(b) 1675 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 200.
On theis who ar suspectit to … resett utted ministers 1679 Ib. 264.
To turne out the wyfes and families of all uted ministers(2) 1676 Lauder Jrnl. 225.
On the 8 and 11 of January 1676 all the outed advocats … ware admitted again to their employments 1696 Fountainhall Decis. I. 714.
And yet he would take the place of an outed lord of the session(3) absol. 1669 Lauderdale P. II. 194.
They prayid he might … readmitt all the outtid
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