a. Obs. exc. Sc. Forms: see THOUGHT1. [f. as prec. + -Y.] Given to thought, thoughtful. a. Heedful, attentive, intent. † b. Pensive, melancholy, anxious.

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c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, xxvii. (Machor), 706. Besy … Til infourme ȝu in cheryte, And in sawle-hele thochty to be.

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1387–8.  T. Usk, Test. Love, II. ix. (Skeat), l. 21. Euer is their contemplacion in ful of thoughty study to plesaunce.

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c. 1412.  Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 80. Who so þat thoghty is, is wo-be-gon.

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c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., VI. xvi. 1608. As he past apon a day In til huntynge … On his gamyn al thouchty.

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c. 1430.  Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, I. cxl. (1869), 73. I was ther of wunderliche abashed and thouhti.

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1823.  Corbett, Petticoat T., II. 110 (Jam.). Fanny is two years younger than I am, and not so thoughty, as Philip says.

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  Hence † Thoughtiness, melancholy, pensiveness.

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1707.  J. Nimmo, Narr. (1889), 4. My father was resolved to use authoretie qch was not pleasing to me and increased my thoghtiness.

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