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Incestu(o)us, a. Also: insestuous, -cesteous. [e.m.E. incestuous (1532), -ious (1581), -eous (1621). L. incestuōsus.] Incestuous. Also absol. as noun. —(a) 1513 Doug. vi. ix. 203.
Forbodyn or incestuus mariage 1571 Buchanan in Campbell Love-lett. Mary 143.
[He defiled his house] with incestuous villainy 1586 St. A. Kirk S. 562.
Tuching thair mariage, quhilk is allegit to be insestuous(b) 1551 Hamilton Cat. 10.
Incesteous personis 1590 St. A. Kirk S. 672.
The dilatioun … that sche is ane adultreis and incesteous person —absol. 1611 Fife Synod 40.
The names of the adultereris and incestuous within the parochin
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