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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1584-1585, 1692
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Gum(e)-gad(e, -gal'd, a. [e.m.E. gomme, med. L. gumma, a syphilitic tumour. Cf. Gait a.] Infected with syphilis. — a1585 Polwart Flyt. 739.
Gume gade, bald skade, … why flait thou? 1692 Presbyterian Eloquence (ed. 2) 94.
God confound … that gumgal'd whore, the whore of Babylon
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