A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1661-1700
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Stupendious, adj. [e.m.E. stupendyous (1547), stupendious (1591).] Stupendous. — 1661 Stockholm New Year's Gift Sig. A 1b.
The stupendious fabrick of this vniverse 1665–7 Lauder Jrnl. 5.
That vast stupendious building, the Louwre 1685 Sinclair Satan's Inv. World Epist. Dedic.
Your renting of rocks, for clearing of passages into your harbours, … is stupendious 1700 Cramond Kirk S. IV 28 Mar.
A solemn nationall fast … for the stupendious burning of … Edinburgh
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