Obs. Also loste. [app. f. lost, pa. pple. of LOSE v.] = LOSS sb.1 To go to lost: to perish, go to ruin.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., II. p. iv. 30 (Camb. MS.). Men do no more fors of the lost than of the hauyinge.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), IV. 213. For þey schulde defende hem þe manloker for drede of so greet lost [L. metu tanti damni].
1390. Gower, Conf., I. 147. Which is of most cost And lest is worth and goth to lost?
1422. trans. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv., 151. Of the lordshupp of Cursid men comyth many lostis and myschefis.
c. 1425. Eng. Conq. Irel., lx. 147. Al thynge vnder hys newe men yede to loste.
1473. Waterf. Arch., in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 310. He shall … make goode of all the losts that is done.
1505. Galway Arch., ibid. 391. All such costes, lostes and damages as he shuld sustayne.
1519. Horman, Vulg., vii. 86. For in that delynge is great lost of tyme.
1671. Woodbury Churchw. Acc. (E. D. D.). Collected by vertue of a Briefe for a lost by ffire.
