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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Planet, n. Also: planete, -eit, -eyt, -ait, -it, plannet, plenet, playnyt. [ME. planet (c 1290), OF. (and OE.) planete, late L. planēta.] One of the seven planets of Ptolemaic astronomy.(a) a1400 Leg. S. l. 114.
Sone & mone & planettis plane c1400 Troy-bk. i. 582.
Planettes c1475 Wall. xi. 500.
A thyk myst fell, the planet was nocht cleyr 1558 Mill Mediæv. Plays 183.
For paynting of the vij planets of the kart 1639 Fugitive Poetry II. xvi. v. 14.
Lyke plannets wandering here and there(b) c1400 Troy-bk. i. 504.
A cercle that turnys in heven One some ane of the planetes seven Ib. 533. a1500 Henr. Fab. 1659 (Bann.).
Everye planete [v. rr. planet] in his propir sphere, In moving makand armonye and sound a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 727 (H).
Than sone and mone … And vtheris planetis [Arund. planitis] 1513 Doug. i. Prol. 63.
Thow Phebus lightnar of the planetis all 1549 Compl. 38/9.
The sternis & planetis(c) c1500-c1512 Dunb. x. 12 (B).
And all ȝe hevinly operationis, Ster, planeit, firmament, and speir 1549 Compl. 38/16.
Euery planeit of oure hemespeir 1580 Hume Promine 10.
That pompous planeit placit properlie In that north signe(d) c1475 Wall. vii. 175.
That wykked syng so rewled the planait [: stait]

b. In astrology, and allusively, with reference to the ‘influence’ of the planets on earthly life.(1) 1375 Barb. iv. 695.
Astrology, Quhar-throu clerkis … May knaw coniunctione of planetis a1400 Leg. S. xxi. 389.
The playnyt that regnyt than 1456 Hay I. 76/21.
All the vertew … thai tak … fra the said disposicioun of the sternis and the planetis c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 479.
[Men's destinies] Into the plenettis cleirlie couth he se Ib. 5567.
To planettis that all this warld governis a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 147. a1500 Seven S. 155. 1513 Doug. Comm. i. v. 2.
The proprieteis of Jupiter the planeyt 1535 Stewart 25908.
Vexit he wes with grit infirmitie Be constillatioun of the planetis hie c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus Prol. 8. Id. Seven S. 10485.(2) 1558 Mill Mediæv. Plays 183.
[24] elnis of small canves tilbe the vij planets coitts and hois