fraised (frazd)

[ fraistt, v. [ME. fraisten, freisten, frasten, = freista Sw. fresta, try, attempt, test, tempt, Dan. friste, try, attempt, tempt, experience; with formative -t (akin to Goth. * fraistan, in deriv. fraistubni, fraistobni, trial, temptation), from the verb (Goth. fraisan, etc.) represented by fraise1: see fraisel.] I. trans. 1. To try; test; prove; put to the proof. Thou fraisted us, als silver fraisted i e. Ps. lxv. 10 (ME. version) [lxvi. 10]. Fulle many men the world here fraistes , Bot he is noght wyse that thar in traystes. Hampole , Prick of Conscience, 1. 1090. 2. To learn by trial; experience. zoure douhtyne e of blode the Sarazins salle freiste. Rob. of Brunne, tr. of Langtoft's Chron. (ed. Hearne), [p. 175. 3. To seek to learn; ask; inquire. ffrayne will I fer and fraist of there werkes, Meue to my mater and make here an ende. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 97. 4. To seek; be eager for; desire. Nay, frayst I no fyzt, in fayth I the telle. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 279. II. in trans. To go forth on an expedition; sally forth. The kyng fraystez a-furth over the fresche strandez. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1227. fraitert, fraitort, n. [Early mod. E. also frayter , fraytor, froyter; fraitor , fraitour , fraytour, freit our , eitour , freitur , fratour, frature, fratour , frature , fraitur , by apheresis from refreitor, refretor, ref retour , refretoire , refectorium , a dining hall in a convent, à refectory: see refectory. Hence fratery, fratry, and in comp. frater house.] A dining-hall in a convent; a refectory. Thus the i ben exempt from cloistre, and from risyng at mydnyzt, and fro fastinge in her [their] fraitour , and other workes of obedience. Wyclif, Select Works (ed. Arnold), I. 292. And thanne freres in here freitoure shal fynden a keye Of Const an tynes coffres, in which is the catel That Gregories god-children han yuel dispended. Piers Plowman (B), x. 323.