Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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Quotation dates: 1701-1709
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RIOT, n. Also ryot. Sc. †usage: bodily harm or violence imposed unlawfully upon one person by another, assault and battery. Hence ryoteous, violent.Peb. 1701 Burgh Rec. Peb. (1910) 164:
Fyne Mary Moutray in fourty shilling for ryot on David Bruce.Ayr. 1706 Arch. and Hist. Coll. Ayr and Wgt. IV. 218:
Protested and taken instrumentes against me . . . for ane ryot and for coast skaith.Lnk. 1709 Minutes J.P.s (S.H.S.) 62, 76:
The said Walter Carmichaell was guilty of a great riot, committed by him upon the said John Hutchine, by beating, bruiseing, blooding, and abuseing of his person. . . . The defender had committed a ryoteous ejectione against the purswer.
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