Sc. and north. Obs. Forms: 4–6 traiste, 5 trayste, treyst, trast, 5–7 traist. [app. a. ON. *trøysti, *treysti (mod. Norw. dial. trøyste strengthening, strength, firmness), related to ON. traust sb., firmness, confidence, security, safety, trust, and to ON. treysta, trøysta, TRAIST v. Cf. Gothic trausti covenant. Cognate with TRUST, TREST, TRIST sbs.] Confidence, trust; assurance felt, received, or given.
c. 1340. Hampole, Prose Tr., 18. Puttande all his traiste and his desyre in hym [Ihesu].
a. 1400. Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. (1867), 27. Þat we hafe trayste to com thedyre.
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 96. Sum tyme man is holpun bi treyst þat he haþ in o þing.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 179. He wald geve lytill traist in that sauf condyt.
c. 1500. Lancelot, 1536. To wer on them In trast of victory.
1513. Jas. IV., Lett., in Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII. (1548), 30. Bastard Heron … slewe our warden vnder traist of dayes of metyng for iustice.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. (S.T.S.), I. 79. Thair hail traist, and al thair hope was in this opinione.
1678. Sir G. Mackenzie, Crim. Laws Scot., I. xi. § 16 (1699), 67. Where the Party Slain is under the Traist, Credit, Assurance, and power of the Slayer.
