Obs. A minced oath: = God’s lid(s: see GOD sb. 14 a, and cf. UDS 1. So † Z’life = God’s life.
1616. S. S., Honest Lawyer, I. B. 4 b. Zlid, before the Prologue had done, I had lost my purse.
1689. N. Lee, Princ. Cleve, II. ii. 19. Z’life I am as weary of mine, as a Modish Lady of her old Cloaths.
1785. Hutton, Bran New Wark, 170 (E.D.S.). Zleads! he nivver played hocus pocus.
