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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1456-1475, 1567-1568, 1641-1661
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Per(e, Peir, Peyr, v.2 Also irregular or erroneous form: parrire. [Late ME. pere (c 1450), e.m.E. pear(e (1568), peere (1599), aphetic f. Appere v. 1.] intr. a. To come into sight, appear. = Appere v. 1. b. To appear before a court. = Appere v. 1 b.a. a1400 Legends of the Saints ii. 1059.
Till ȝou one the day can pere … A gret pillere a1400 Ib. xxx. 440.
God … Gert til hyme ane angele pere c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace xi. 499.
Thus still thai baid quhill day began to peyr c1475 Ib. vi. 544.
Per c1475 Ib. xi. 438.
Sternys wp peyr began in to thair sychtb. 1456 Peebles B. Rec. I. 114.
The said Wil callit thrys and perit noch a1568 Bannatyne MS I. p. 45/21.
The rankest theif of this regioun Dar pertly peir vnto the sessioun 1641 Acts V. (1817) 446/1.
Sitted by proclammatione I thocht fitt to parrire and answyre the sittatione by my appeiring heir at this tyme 1661 Rothesay Par. Rec. 52.
John Cernegem Elespet NcKaw both in thes peres for the first tym
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