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: 1499-1636
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Paschal(l, -ale, a. [Late ME. and e.m.E. pascalle (Lydgate), paschall(e (15th c.), F. pascal, late L. paschal-is. Cf. Pas(c)h(e n. 2.] Paschal, in the usual senses and collocations. — a1500 Bernardus 81.
In … haly tyme Paschale 1533 Boece ix. xvi. 329.
Twiching the celebracion of the Paschale solempnite 1533 Ib. xix. 338.
The Paschale tyme 1551 Hamilton Catechism 202.
The immolatioun and sacrifice of the Paschal lambe a1561 Q. Kennedy Breif Tract. (ed.) 117/20, etc. 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 43.
Paschall c 1588 Cath. Tr. 256/19 (see Pas(c)h(e n. 1 (7)). 1636 Re-examination of the Five Articles 6.
They sate down again to the second course of the Paschall supper
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