See frist in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English dialectal terms"
],
"glosses": [
"To grant respite; especially, to give a debtor credit or time for payment."
],
"links": [
[
"grant",
"grant"
],
[
"respite",
"respite"
],
[
"give",
"give"
],
[
"time",
"time"
],
[
"payment",
"payment"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK dialectal) To grant respite; especially, to give a debtor credit or time for payment."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English dialectal terms",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1765, Samuel Rutherford, Joshua Redivivus, page 323:",
"text": "Now, in the strength of Jesus, dispatch your business; that debt is not forgiven, but fristed: death hath not bidden you farewel, but hath only left you for a short season.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1884, Lucy Ellen Guernsey, Loveday's History: A Tale of Many Changes, page 105:",
"text": "Na, na, lassie. Dinna be too confident. “What's fristed is no forgotten.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1924, James S. Wilkie, The History of Fife, page 553:",
"text": "Alexander's early backsliding, when \"he thrawed his mouth\" at the minister — a sin beside which the modern lèse majesté seems venial, —had been fristed but not forgiven, and again he was summoned to appear before the session.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To defer; postpone."
],
"links": [
[
"transitive",
"transitive"
],
[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
],
[
"defer",
"defer"
],
[
"postpone",
"postpone"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal) To defer; postpone."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"dialectal",
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fɹɪst/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪst"
}
],
"word": "frist"
}
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