A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1475, 1569-1586
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Gastly, a.1 Also: -lye, gastely, gaystely, gaistlie. [Northern ME. gastly, -li (c 1300), early southern gastlich, OE. gástlic.] Spiritual. — a1400 Legends of the Saints i. 112.
Gretand faste with gastly gammyne a1400 Ib. vii. 799.
God me fed with gaystely fude … , & confort me with gastely lycht c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ii. 184.
Gastlye Fadyr, that deit apon the tre a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS lv. 5.
Fleschlie desyr and gaistlie nurisching
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