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maught, maucht Now only Sc.|mɔːxt|
Forms: 3–4 maȝt, maght, 4 mauȝt, 4, 9 macht, 4–5 mawcht, 4– maucht, 4– maught.
[App. a. ON. *maht-r (Icel. mátt-r):—OTeut. type *mahtu-z, a parallel formation with *mahti-z fem.: see might n.]
Strength, might, power, ability.
c1220Bestiary 541 Ðis deuel is mikel wið wil and maȝt. a1300Cursor M. 6720 Þe lord þat þat beist aght, Sal þar-for ansuer at his maght. c1320Sir Beues (A.) 860 A swerd of miche mauȝt. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxi. (Clement) 454 He..hyre embrasit with al his macht. c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. x. 3065 Wytht mekyll mawcht. 1549Compl. Scotl. vi. 41 Ane lang draucht, ane lang draucht, mair maucht, mair maucht. 1768Ross Helenore (1789) 22 They had nae maughts for sick a toilsome task. a1774Fergusson Poems (1789) II. 96 Fearfu' aften o' their maught. 1825–80Jamieson s.v. Maucht, Of a person who is paralytic, or debilitated by any other malady, it is said; He has lost the machts, or his machts.
Hence ˈmaughtless (also mauchless) a., powerless; ˈmauchty a., powerful.
1768Ross Helenore (1789) 17 Jeering, they'd say, Poor Lindy's maughtless grown. Ibid. 22 Amo' the herds that plaid a maughty part. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 38 Whairat the mauchty knicht took fire. 1882J. Walker Jaunt to Auld Reekie, etc. 27 Flat on the floor..Where mauchless he in beastly stupor fell. |
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