Meaning

(obsolete) A certain space or period of time; respite..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) A certain space or period of time; respite.
2. (UK dialectal) Time allotted for repayment; a term (in which a debt is to be repaid); a delay; respite; suspension.
3. (UK dialectal) Credit; trust.
4. (UK dialectal) To grant respite; especially, to give a debtor credit or time for payment.
5. (ambitransitive, UK dialectal) To defer; postpone.

Example Sentences

His was a short frist (He had a short life).

Yitt they caused the lordis that war vpoun on the panell, that schould have thoalled judgment, to find cautioun everie ane of thame, vnder the paine of certane soumes, to answer at ane certane apoynted to thame. Yitt all thir lordis war verrie blyth, think and that all evill was guid of frist, in speciall the lord David Lindsay was so blyth at his brothers sayingis, that he burst furth, saying to him: "Verrilie brother, yea have fyne pyatt wordis. I wold not have trowed, be St Amarie, that yea had sick wordis".

All Ills are good a frist.

My time is short, my frist is o'er, and I have much to say.

Sald tham to fryst to a man of the Hag, […] Sold them to frist to a man of The Hague, […]

Ane dyvour coffe, that wirry hen, / Distroyis the honor of our natioun, / Takis gudis to frist fra fremmit men, / And brekis his obligatioun. One bankrupt rouge , that wirry hen, / destroys the honor of our nation / takes goods to frist from fremd men, / and breaks his obligation.

Credit and frist is quyte away, / No thing is lent bot for usure; […]

Now, in the strength of Jesus, dispatch your business; that debt is not forgiven, but fristed: death hath not bidden you farewel, but hath only left you for a short season.

Word Forms

• frists
• fristing
• fristed

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