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English
Etymology
From Middle English pouste, from Anglo-Norman pousté, Old French poesté, posté etc., from (the stem of) Latin potestās (“power”). Doublet of podesta.
Pronunciation
Noun
poustie (uncountable)
- (now Scotland, Ireland) Power, authority, strength, health.
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 […].’
- 2020 Department of Health (NI), An Roinn Sláinte, Männystrie O Poustie
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