yought

English

Noun

yought (countable and uncountable, plural youghts)

1. Obsolete form of youth.
   • c. 1548, Ihon Oecolampadius, translated by Ihon Foxe, A ſarmon, of Ihon Oecolampadius, to yong men, and maydens, London: Hugh Syngleton:

     Now for y^e moſt part of yought they nether knowe what god, what the deuell, what good, oꝛ what euell meanes.

   • 1560 September 26, “The nynthe book of Sleidanes commentaries, concerning the ſtate of Religion, and the common Weale […] ”, in Ihon Sleidane, translated by Ihon Daus, A famous Cronicle of oure time, called Sleidanes Commentaries […] ‎^[1], London: Nicholas Englande, Folio cxxiiij, verso:

     As touching monaſticall vowes, the kyng ſupposeth that it might be obteined of the byſhop, that none ſhould be taken in yong, and befoꝛe the vowers were of rype yeares […] And thinketh not good to deface theyꝛ houſes, but to conuerte them in to Colleges, wherein yought may be brought vp in learnyng and vertue.

   • 1620, Tobias Venner, “OF THE FLESH OF Beaſts and Fowles”, in Via recta ad vitam longam […] ‎^[2], London: Richard Moore, page 46:

     Before I anſwer to the queſtion, you muſt vnderſtand, that wee make foure differences in the age of beaſts, that is to ſay, the time of ſucking, of yought, of middle age, of old age.

Middle English

Noun

yought

1. (Late Middle English) Alternative form of youthe