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Ded(e)-, Deid, Dead-bed, n. (e.m.E. dead-bed (1550), late ME. ded bed (ME. deeth bed, OE. déað-bed), f. Dede n.²] Death-bed.(a) 1492 Acts Lords of Council 284/1.
The tyme of his deces & quhen he lay on his ded bed 1496 Ib. II. 19.
He … for dred of disherising be his sade fader lyand in dedebed, gaif his consent 1516 Fife Sheriff Ct. 30.
Eleizeus Foret one his dedbed … tuke one his saule before witnes that he causit the letteris … to be abstract 1533 Boece vi. viii. 201 b.
Fincormak … resauit the crowne be the handis of Craithlinth apoun his dede bed 1551 Protocol Book of Sir William Corbet 15.
Lyand one his dedbed(b) 1515 Acts Lords of Council MS. XXVII. 83.
His fadir had conscience tharof in his deid bed 1557 Inverness B. Rec. I. 5.
Alexander Cuper on his deid bed confessit that the … land wes lyand to hyme in wed 1574 Edinburgh Testaments III. 77.
Johne Hope being seik in bodie … liand vpoun his deid bed 1600 Criminal Trials II. i. 156.
Seing he was vpoune his deid bed, as appeirit to thame, deidlie vondit with twa straikis 1629 Dumfries Test. I a. 191 b.
The vtincellis & domiceillis of the hous being disponit … be the said vmquhill Barbara Bartoune vpon hir deid bed c1650 Spalding I. 263.
It wes reportit that [the] capitane of the castell of Dumbreton, vpone his deidbed, revellit ane plot(c) 1608 Breadalbane Lett. (Reg. H.) 24 Mch.
The said Androw on his dead-bed maid my father assignay … to thir bands 1630 Haddo P. (Reg. H.).
The same wes done on his dead bed 1649 Cupar Presb. 149.
Questioning Helen Young on hir deadbed, what she was doing then