v. Obs. Forms: α. 4 trais, trayse; pa. pple. 4 traised, traijst, traist, y-treyst, (traysted), 6 Sc. trasit. β. 4 traysch, 5 trays(s)hen, traisshe, tras(s)he, trahysh; pa. pple. 4 traysched, trayscht, etc. [f. F. traïss-, trahiss-, lengthened stem of trahir to betray: see TRAY v., and cf. BETRAISE v.] trans. To betray.
α. a. 1300. Cursor M., 15497. Þou sal be traijst lauerd, to night. Ibid., 20042. Ur lauerd crist deied on rode and was traist.
13[?]. Guy Warw. (A.), 2517. He seyd, y-treyst we ben here.
1320–40. Chron. Eng. (Ritson), 830. Tho come the traitours … That heden traised Edmond.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 61. Machog, þe Scottes kyng, þat wild þorgh traitourie Haf traised Edward þe kyng.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 2075. Has þat vntrewe treytour traysted me nouþe.
a. 1352. Minot, Poems, vii. 150. Þat daunce with treson was bygun, To trais þe bare with sum fals gyn.
a. 1375. Joseph Arim., 624. I wol þe nout trayse.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, IX. iv. 8. Drawbriggis befoir the ȝettis vprasit Junct to the wallis, at thai suld nocht be trasit.
β. c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 5459. Wyst our folk we were þus trayscht [v.r. traist], Hit scholde make þem alle abayscht.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 3231. She hath [thee] trasshed, withoute ween.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, IV. 4562. To traisshe her toun þei hild it no repref.
c. 1489. Caxton, Blanchardyn, xlvi. 178. The good lady thenne hering the cursed and false traytours speke, saw wel that she was trahyshed of all poyntes.
