Sc. var. (also pa. t. and pa. pple.) of QUIT v. (Cf. QUATED.)

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1573.  Satir. Poems Reform., xxxix. 54. So had the cause bene quat, wer not for shame.

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1597.  Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae, 1179. Thou … Gars courage quat them.

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1637–50.  J. Row, Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842), 254. So he quat his ministrie.

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1714.  Ramsay, Elegy John Cowper, xii. (1877), I. 168. To quat the grip he was right laith.

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1786.  Burns, To James Smith, xxix. I shall say nae mair, But quat my sang.

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1836.  M. Macintosh, Cottager’s Daughter, 49. For your threats ae truth I winna quat.

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