A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1693-1700+
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Supin(e)ly, adv. [e.m.E. supinely (1603); Supine adj.] a. So as to be rendered incapable of standing. b. Idly, indolently. —a. 1693 Fountainhall Decis. I 554.
The Lords would not directly sustain that defence … that he was so supinely drunk, … that he had not the use of his senses or reason —b. 1698 S. Ronaldshay 68.
He is aleadged to be supinly negligent in so far as he does many times forbear to preach on the Sabbath day 1707 Dunkeld Presb. II 291.
He is supinly negligent in the exercise of his ministerial office
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