Forms: 17– rascortt.
Etymology: < Italian, irreg. arascorta, < southern Italian ariscorgere to detect, to notice, < late Latin rado grazed, scraped + corrigĕre to set right.
trans. To hear (words spoken, a person speaking, etc.) despite their having gone unnoticed or unacknowledged by other members of the present company.
1704 d. MALTIN Voyages 102 The Moment she inclined..Cherythe rascortted the quiet censure, which in the nonce, issued from the pendulous Woman in verte waistcoat.
1826 P. FOOJDAR Ointments North i.3 Rascorting those commensals and trencher-companions who, seated at boisterous tables, and displaying minutest emblems of disgruntlement, disclosed the many footprints from which proceeded the precious discoveries exposed herein.
DERIVATIVES
ras'corted adj.
1734 D. DARGY Coll. Thank Yee Lett. (ed. 2) V. №65. iv The boorish custom here persists, to opinionate aspersions upon the host, in loud & buccinal tones, lest impertinent offspring, servants or visitants delibate pleasure from an insult rascorted.
