pa. pple. Obs. Forms 6 adettyt, addettit, addetted, addebtit; 7 adebted, 7–9 addebted. [f. earlier en-detted pa. pple. of endet, a. OFr. endete-r, endette-r:—late L. indebitā-re: see INDEBT. The Fr. prefix en-, like Eng. an-, on-, reduced to a-, afterwards refashioned as ad-; see A- pref. 10. The word seems only Scotch.] Indebted.
1513. Douglas, Virgil’s Æneis, X. xiv. 56. And was adettyt, for my mysdoyng Onto our cuntre, till haue sufferit pane.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scotl., 36060, II. 521. He wes aboue all erthlie thing, So far addettit to that nobill king.
1566. Knox, Hist. Ref. Scotl., Wks. 1846, I. 289. I am addetted to your Lordschip.
1639. Drumm. of Hawth., Wks., 1711, 223. How much is Florence adebted to the noble Laurentius of Medices, for his library?
1651. Calderwood, Hist. Kirk (1843), II. 232. How muche we were addebted unto God.
1822. Scott, Nigel, iv. (1874), 61. His Majesty’s maist gracious mother … justly addebted and owing the sum of fifteen merks.
