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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1642
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Mandy, n. [? Cf. e.m.E. maundy, mandy, ME. mandé, maundé (c 1290), Maundy, OF. mandé, L. mandātum ‘commandment’.] ? A command, order, commission. — 1642 The Scots Scouts Discovered 3.
[I heard] the king was gone to Yorke [from London]. … I have mist a mandy, which I thought to have had, to have carried me again home into Scotland
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