Obs. exc. dial. Also 6 flaight, 7 flayte. [var. of FLIGHT v.] trans. To frighten, scare, terrify. Hence Flaited ppl. a.

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1565.  Golding, Ovid’s Met., II. (1593), 39.

        Then Phebus gathered up his steedes that yit for feare did run
Like flaighted fiends.

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1642.  Rogers, Naaman, 138. Till the Lord by his terrors flaite her.

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1674.  Ray, S. & E. C. Words (1691), 98. Flaite.

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1721.  in Bailey.

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