Also 6 solde, Sc. sauld. [pa. pple. of SELL v.]
1. Disposed of by sale. Also fig.
1535. Coverdale, Deut. xviii. 8. Besydes that which he hath of the solde good of his fathers.
1591. Exch. Rolls Scotl., XXII. 162. Thair is to be deducit the rest restand upoun the comptar at the fute of the sauld victuellis.
1637. Rutherford, Lett., clxv. (1862), V. 384. Except that Christ’s grace hath bought such a sold body, I know not what else any may think of me.
1652. in Mary Hickson, Irel. in 17th C. (1884), I. 298. As the examt.’s husband told her when he came home next day, and withal said we were ‘a sold people.’
1722. De Foe, Col. Jack, xi. The very same low distressed condition as he was in, I mean a sold servant.
1853. Fairbairn, Typology Scripture, I. 339. The sold, hated, and crucified One.
1862. Thornbury, Life of Turner, I. 271. A volume of sketches of sold pictures.
2. Denoting a sale effected.
1862. Parthenon, 16 Aug., 497/1. Those pictures which have ‘sold’ tickets.
1891. Law Times, XCI. 193/1. There was no clause about arbitration on the sold note sent by the brokers to the plaintiffs.
