Sc. Also 7 leit, 8 lytt. [f. LEET sb.2] trans. To place in a list of selected candidates; to nominate. Hence Leeted ppl. a.; Leeting vbl. sb.
1583. in Maitland, Edin. (1753), 231. Theirefter the said Provest, Baillies, and Counsell, sall nominate, and lytt three Persones … of the saids fourten Crafts.
1612. Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1816), IV. 518/1. To leit and present twa persounes with the auld thesaurar to the Thesaurie of the said cietie. Ibid. To haue the fre leitting and electioun of thair said prouest deane of gild baillies and thesaurar.
1637–50. Row, Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.), p. xxi. Thair wer six persones leitit to be sent to the King that he myght chuse ane of them for that kirk. Ibid., 290. Sitting doune as moderator without any leeting or voycing.
1647. in Baillie’s Lett. (Bannatyne Club), III. 20. Mr. David Calderwood … hes pressed soe a new way of leetting the moderator for time to come, that [etc.].
a. 1670. Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (1792), I. 314. They referred their leeted [Bannatyne Club ed. listed] men with eiking paring or changing to the next provincial assembly.
