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poustie

poustie

English

Noun

poustie ‎(uncountable)

(now Scotland, Ireland) Power, authority.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XIV:
  ‘A, good knyght,’ seyde he, ‘thou arte a foole; for that jantillwoman was the mayster fyende of helle, which hath pouste over all other devyllis […].’