sb. Obs. [UN-1 12 + TRIST sb.1] Distrust. Also † Untrist a. [UN-1 7 + TRIST a.1], unfaithful; unbelieving. † Untristed ppl. a. [UN-1 8 + TRIST v.], unhoped for. † Untristy a. [UN-1 7], faithless; unreliable.

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1390.  Gower, Conf., II. 151. Jelousie of his *untrist Makth that full many an harm arist.

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1400.  Comm. Luke i. 19 (MS. Bodl. 143). In beyng doumb he suffriþ þe peyne of vntrist disseruyd.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Troylus, III. 839. Whi hastow mad Troylus to me *vntriste?

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c. 1460.  Towneley Myst., xxvii. 210. Me thynk you all vntrist to trow,… All that the prophetys told to you before, it is no trane.

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138?.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 115. A Goddes man seide … þat þere was to comen and *untristed [L. insperatum] a lordschipe fro Fraunce. Ibid., III. 265. Þe firste tweie artes beeþ untrusty [Cotton MS. *vntrysti.]

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c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 11973. Þan happit hom to mete The traytor with tene, vntristy Eneas.

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c. 1460.  Promp. Parv. (Winch. MS.), On-trysty, idem quod on thende.

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