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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1456-1560
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Controvit, Contrufit, ppl. a. Also: -trowit, -truwit. [f. Controve v.]
1. Invented, concocted, fabricated. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxi. 626.
Gyf scho has witnesing Of hyre controwit fals lesyng 1456 Hay I. 243/2.
Men may wele se that it is bot fals contrufit malice … to say [etc.] a1500 Henr. Fab. 2276.
Thy argument is fals, and eik contrufit 1513 Doug. xi. viii. 73.
Than with hys dreid and sle controvit [R. -truwit] feir My cryme aggregis he on hys maner 1560 Rolland Seven Sages (Title-p.).
Ane exclamation and outcrying vpon the Empreouris wife efter hir fals contrufit tale
2. Pretended; disguised. 1513 Doug. ii. iii. 99.
By sik wylis and slychtis … Of fals controvit and maynsworn Synone, The mater is belevit
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