mistryst

Definitions

An obsolete variant of mistrust.
To disappoint by failing to keep an engagement; bring into trouble or confusion by disappointing; deceive; use ill.

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` ` Ye'll be gaun yonder, Mr. Patrick; fiend o 'me will mistryst you for a' my mother says.

The Black Dwarf 1898
“Ye’ll be gaun yonder, Mr. Patrick; feind o’ me will mistryst you for a’ my mother says.

The Black Dwarf 2004
"Ye'll just mistryst aince and for a 'with the gentry in the bents.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893
"Ye'll just mistryst aince and for a 'with the gentry in the bents.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
"Ye'll just mistryst aince and for a 'with the gentry in the bents.

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
"Ye'll be gaun yonder, Mr. Patrick; feind o 'me will mistryst you for

The Black Dwarf Walter Scott 1801