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▪ I. † stroy, n. Obs.
[In sense 1, ? short for stroy-all or -good: see stroy v. b. In sense 2, aphetic f. destroy n.]
1. One who destroys; a wasteful person. dial.
c1440Promp. Parv. 480/2 Stroy [v.r. stroye], or dystroyare, destructor, dissipator. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Stry, Stry-good, s., a wasteful person; a bad manager or economist.
2. Destruction. to make stroy of, to make spoil of, pillage.
1682Bunyan Holy War (1905) 386 Nor did they partake or make stroy of any of the Necessaries of Mansoul, but that which they seised on against the Townsmens will. 1688Ld. Delamere Adv. to Childr. Wks. (1694) 25 To have your meat well drest does well, for there is not much difference betwixt a wilful stroy, and to have a great deal of meat spoiled in the dressing.
▪ II. stroy, v. Obs. or arch.|strɔɪ|
Forms: α. 2–3 struȝe, 2–4 struie, 4 stru(e, strui, strwe, 4–5 struye. β. 4–5 strye, 4–6 strie, 5, 7, 9 dial. stry. γ. 4 stroȝe, 4– 5 stroie, 4–6 stroye, 4–9 stroy.
[Aphetic f. destroy v.; cf. astroy v.]
trans. To destroy.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 51 Þat he sholde fare to þe burh of ierusalem and struȝen it. Ibid. 161 [The Devil] struieð rihte bileue. a1300Cursor M. 9203 In his time..Iurselem was struid [Gött. stroyd]. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2194 Hit is þe fende,..Þat has stoken me þis steuen, to strye me here. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 587 Þei..studyeden to stroyen [v.r. struyen] hym and stroyden hemself. 1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxviii. 17 Wallid cites of riche men it stroȝede. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 4953 As clay of ways I sall þaim struye [Vulg. Ps. xvii. 43 delebo]. c1450Mirk's Festial 72, I woll strye hit [the world] wyth a flod. 1567Turberv. Epit. etc. 89 b, Though Tayler cut thy garment out of frame, And strie thy stuffe by sowing it amis. 1579W. A. Remedy agst. Love (Roxb.) B iiij b, For take away the cause of every vice..You stroy theffect. 1603J. Davies (Heref.) Microcosmos 49 Damn'd Nothing that hast such a some-thing stride, How wast begot? 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. xi. 54 What I haue left behinde Stroy'd in dishonor. c1611Chapman Iliad xxii. 37 O Hector! flie, this man, this homicide, That strait will stroy thee. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. i. iv. 6 They stroy one th' other in fell cankred mood. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 189 As they look't up ilk lofty wa', Takin' their meiths for its downfa', That they may strike and stroy. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Stry, to destroy; to waste.
†b. Comb.: stroy-all, stroy-good, a destructive or wasteful person.
1573–80Tusser Husb. (1878) 21 A giddie braine maister, and *stroyal his knaue, brings ruling to ruine and thrift to hir graue.
1540Palsgr. Acolastus i. iii. F iij b, I reioyce..to be called Acolastus .i. a *stroygood, or a prodigal felow. 1567Golding Ovid's Met. xi. (1593) 269 The cruell stroygood [L. vastatorem] with his bloodie mouth and heere. 1611Cotgr., Bobancier, an vnthrift, riotous waster, superfluous spender, immoderate stroy-good. a1825stry-good [see stroy n. 1].
Hence † ˈstroying vbl. n.
1396–7in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1907) XXII. 303 Aborcife and stroying of kynde. c1400Wyclif's Wycket (1546) B j, Great stroyeng of the people of God. 1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1569) G iv, How many came to the campes from long labour to sodeine ease, and from meane fare to stroying of vittaile. 1573–80Tusser Husb. (1878) 106 If shepherd would keepe them from stroieng of corne. |
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