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Subitan(e, Subytane, adj. [Late L. subitanus, L. subitāneus sudden. Cf. e.m.E. subitane (1633).] Sudden; spontaneous, unpremeditated; unforeseen. — c1420 Wynt. ii 716.
Gedeyl-Glays wes our-tane Off case wytht dede than subitane c1420 Wynt. v 1708.
Melans, Throuch subitane and fell wengeans, … fers … Peryst c1420 Wynt. v 3482.
Julyane Ourtakyn wes wyth dede subytane 1646 Gillespie Aarons Rod Blossoming To the Reader 14.
Subitane lucubrations will not doe 1679 McCrie Mem. Veitch 499.
My subitan and raw thoughts and reasonings, without reading any thinge on the subject for such an end
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