A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1549-1623, 1685
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Paralitic(k, -ike, a. [ME. paralitik(e n. (1380), -letike a. (c 1410), also peralytyk (1398), e.m.E. paraletike (1510), OF. paralitike, -lytique. (Cf. Paralisie n.)] Paralytic. — 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 67/35.
Morpheus … gart al my spreitis vital ande animal be cum impotent & paralitic 1581-1623 James VI Poems I. 181/644.
A uyle paralitike feeble one — 1685 Bk. Old Edinb. C. XI. 65.
A paralitick desease
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