I was but late att a Iustynge / and there I Iusted with a knyghte that is broder vnto kynge Pellam / and twyes smote I hym doune / & thenne he promysed to quyte me on my best frynde / and so he wounded my sone that can not be hole tyll I haue of that knyghtes blood
puhekieltä To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
Vnthankfull wretch (said he) is this the meed, / With which her soueraigne mercy thou doest quight?
puhekieltä To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
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Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
Samson hath quit himself like Samson.
puhekieltä To carry through; to go through to the end.
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Never worthy prince a day did quit / With greater hazard and with more renown.
puhekieltä To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?
puhekieltä To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.