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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Idil-, Idleset(t, n. Also: ydleset, idleseat, idill-seat. [Idill a.; (appar.) Set n. ‘setting, putting’. Also in the mod. dial.] Idleness. ?1672 R. Bruce Serm. Kirk Edinb. Y viij a.
Ane verie slight object or short idleset will enkindle them 1596 Dalr. I. 329/1.
That na true vertue war able to hurt the body sa mekle as ydleset or ryches Ib. II. 363/16.
Thair myndes war sa in ydleset and close fra weir and wapoune 1627 Laing MSS. 178.
I am castin lowse to be ane idill onwaiter, quhilk is … contrair to my nature, for I love not … idilsett 1641 Acts V. 392/1.
All sortis of villanie, as whoredome, idleseat, incest [etc.] c1650 Spalding II. 89.
This day … feisting and idill-seat forbiddin out of pulpites 1654 Cramond Grange Ch. 17.
That no idler shall be permitted to dwell in the parochine … because idleseat is the occasion of much sine 1667 Edinb. Test. LXXIII. 93 b.
[If] my eldest sone … sall spend his tyme in idlesett and deboshrie