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Quotation dates: 1400, 1499-1637
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Hole, Holl(e, Hoill, adj. Also: hol, hoole. [e.m.E. and ME. hole, holle, hoyle, midl. and southern forms of northern hale, OE. hál. Cf. Hale adj.] Whole, complete, all, in various uses with sing. and pl. nouns.(1) c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 2751.
With hole assentc1400 Ib. 66, 1910, etc.[a1500 Quare of Jelusy 220 (this worldis hole plesance).] 1515 Acts Lords of Council MS. XXVII. 33 (the hole assent of the lordis). c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1978 (quhen one … bad hole power imperiall). 1558-66 Knox I. 45 (for the space of a hole Lentran). 1570 Leslie 79 (the hole cause wes ... quyeted). 1571 Misc. Bann. C. III. 139 (a hole throch of Lombard paper). 1584 Satirical Poems xlv. Pref. 102 (this hes drowned hole dioceis).(b) a1500 Lancelot of the Laik 1526 (his holl empire). 1560 St. A. Kirk S. 66.
In presens of the holl ministerie 1561 Ib. 75.
The hol dioceye1576 Douglas Corr. 213 (the rest of the holle goodis). 1590 St. A. Kirk S. 662 (this holl congregatioun). 1613 Aberd. Council Lett. I. 119 (almost his holl conques). 1618 Haddington Corr. 137 (arrestments vpone my holle landis). 1629 Master of Works Accounts XXII. 16 (the holle lokis of the palleice). 1637 Grant Chart. 230 (seik in bodie but holl of mynd).(c) 1525 Douglas Corr. 101 (my hoill troist … in ȝoure grace). 1542 Ib. 148 (the hoill people). 1558-66 Knox II. 232 (the hoill churche). 1558-66 Ib. 239 (the hoill yeare). 1558-66 Ib. 379 (the Protestants convened hoill). 1568 Skeyne Pest 12.
The hoill bodie1570 Leslie 182 (the hoill richesse of Edinburgh). 1584 Misc. Bann. C. I. 85 (throuchout the hoill cuntre). 1602 Colville Parænese Ep. 61 (the hoill aged fischers).(d) 1607 Sc. Ant. XV. 141.
Ȝour hoole familie (2) 1558-66 Knox II. 219 (the ordinarie chargis of the hoill). a 1586 Satirical Poems xxxv. 9 (quhy sould the hoill … beir the blame).(3) adv. c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 1853.
Pallamides was hole purpost For to betrais the Grekis oist a1585 Maitland Quarto MS lxi. 26.
That Mortounis race To covatice wes hoill inclynde
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