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Stouthreif. World English Historical Dictionary

Stouthreif. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2024. Stouthreif Sc. Obs. exc. arch. Also 5 stowthrefe, 5–7 stouthreif, 6 stouthe reif, stowth reif, pl. stouthisreiffis, 7, 9 stouth-rife, 9 stouthreef, -rief. [f. STOUTH + REIF; perh. altered from stouth and reif.] Theft with violence; robbery.

1 1493.  in Pitcairn, Crim. Trials, I. *15. For Stouthreif of a bonnet & quhyngare from the sd Robert.

2 1493.  Reg. Privy Seal Scot., I. 5/1. For the stowthrefe of thre oxin and kye fra the larde of Howmend.

3 1566.  Reg. Privy Council Scot., I. 489. Crymes of slauchtir, stowth reif, thift, resset of thift.

4 a. 1578.  Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 177. Everie lord … was suorne … to cause stouthe reif and slaughter to be punished.

5 1578.  Extracts Burgh Rec. Edin. (1882), IV. 91. Heivylie oppressit be the stouthisreiffis and vtheris enormiteis of the thevis.

6 1587.  Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1814), III. 451/1. Ony landit men … convict of þe crymes of commoun thift resett of thift or stouth reiff … sall incur the cryme and pane of tressoun.

7 1678.  Sir G. Mackenzie, Crim. Laws Scot., I. xix. § v. (1699), 99. Theft may be divided into common Theft, which is Theft so properly called, or Stouth-rife, which is violent Theft, and is a complex of Theft and Robbery.

8 1828.  Scott, F. M. Perth, ii. Thou canst frame locks and bars to defend the property of the weak against the stouthrief and oppression of the strong. [Frequent in Scott.]

9 1881.  Blackw. Mag., April, 518. We love the old ballads of stouthrief and blood-feuds.

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