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: 1399-1400, 1562-1573
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(Pine-,) Pyn(e)ful(l, a. (ME. and e.m.E. pinful (a 1225), pyneful (c 1450), pinefull (1597–8) full of suffering, painful, distressing.) — a1400 Legends of the Saints xl. 963.
Sancte Niniane … in that py[n]ful pyt … cane sit 1562-3 Winȝet I. 23/19.
That the dewe charge and office … is to thaim … wonderous pynefull and almaist importable 1573 Davidson Satirical Poems xl. 135.
Thay did him not mischeif … With pynefull panis
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