Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Oriental(l, a. Also: -ale, -aill, -ell, oryentale, -aile. [ME. and e.m.E. orientale (Piers Plowman), -al(l, F. oriental, L. orientāl-is.] Eastern, easterly.

a. = Orient(e B 1. b. = Orient(e B 2. c. Easterly as opposed to western (part of a region).a. (1) c1420 Wynt. v. 362.
He … Past in the landys oryentale [C. oryentaile, W. orientaill] c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2988.
The Ynde Orientell Preceld in gret commoditeis(2) a1500 Bk. Chess 94.
The fyndar of this chess sport … was a philosophour orientale a1538 Abell 107 b.
Tamburlayn Impriour orientall 1549 Compl. 4/10.
The grite forse of the oriental pepil(3) a1538 Abell 28 b.
This is the difference betwix the Grekis orientaill & the Latynis occidentaillb. c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxv. 26.
Haile, day sterne orientale 1549 Compl. 61/15.
The nyxt cardinal vynd is callit subsolanus or oriental quhilk the vulgaris callis estin vynd c1600 Medical Recipes 86.
Mars … is mouabill orientall & of ane masculyne kyndc. 1490 Irland Mir. I. 78/24.
Mony trowis that jt [Paradise] js vndir the cirkile equenoxiale, drawand to the orientale and est part of that climat