puteriet

[ME., lewdne or prostitution in a female. Bailey. ML. reflex puteria ), prostitution, pute , a pros- put at i on (pu-ta's hon), n. [ put3 .] Prostitution. Chaucer. OF. put at i on , putatio ( n- ), a pruning, lopputidt (pu'tid), a. ping, also (LL.) a reckoning, computing, con- side ring, putare , pp. putatus , cleanse, trim, prune, fig. adjust, settle ( rationem or rationes ) accounts; hence reckon, count, compute, value, estimate, esteem, consider, think, suppose, be- lieve; put us , clean, clear: see pute .] 1. A lopping or pruning, as of trees; pruning. Eke thai be apte unto putacion Of bowes drie or foule elacion. Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 91. 2. The act of considering, deeming, or supposing; supposition; estimation. If we were not the actors and sufferers, it is not po ible that we should be made the natural subjects of the accidents of another's body, by any put at i on , estimation, or Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 73. misjudging whatsoever. Baxter , Life of Faith, iii. 8. [ fetid, putere, stink, be rotten, This Mother of divinest Love, as pure As is that other putid ! J. Beaumont, Psyche, ii. 220. 2. Mean; low; worthle ; foul; dirty; disgusting. Putid fables and ridiculous fictions. Jer. Taylor (?), Artif. Handsomene , p. 126. putiditył (pū-tid'i-ti), n. [ putid +-ity.] The quality of being putid; foulne ; vilene ; meanne .