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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1456-1490, 1549-1588
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Theological(l, -ale, adj. [e.m.E. theologicall (1526), med. L. theologicalis, L. theologicus.] Only qualifying vertues (after the L. virtutes theologicæ of Albertus Magnus): The three Biblical virtues, Faith, Hope and Charity (I Cor. xii 13) (as distinct from the four cardinal virtues of Plato and the Stoics). — 1456 Hay II 52/24.
All knycht … suld knaw all the vii vertues … that is to say the four vertues cardinale and the thre vertues theological. The thre theological is faith, gude hope, and cheretee 1490 Irland Mir. III 11/14.
Faith hop cherite that ar the wertuis hevinly and theologicale a1550 Lang Rosair 330.
Pray for me, that it will pleis His grace that His treuth and gudnes may appeir in my saule be haly doctryne vith the vertuis theologicall 1588 King Catechism 184.
The vertues (quhilk I hawe called theological and cardinal)
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