Sc. Obs. Also trible, -ill, -il. [f. as TRIBUL v.] Tribulation, distress, affliction.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, IV. Prol. 247. Or thi trigittis quhat toung can tell the trible [v.r. tribill]?
1549. Compl. Scot., ix. 75. Afflictione ande tribil.
1563. Winȝet, Four Scoir Thre Quest., To Rdr., Wks. (S.T.S.), I. 49. Thai suffer in this lyfe … that be diuers tribulis thai mot enter … in the lyfe eternall. Ibid., 63. For na trible of tyme nor tyrannie of man.
