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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1693
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(Tantivy,) n. Pl. tantivies. (17th c. Eng. tantivy adv. (1641) ‘at full gallop’, also as noun (1658) ‘a rapid gallop’, and in the sense below (1680-1) ‘a nickname given to the post-Restoration High-Churchmen and Tories, esp. in the reign of Charles II and James II’ (OED).) — 1693 Answer to Presbyterian Eloquence 72.
By the interest of the English Tantivies [he] has been set at liberty several times
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