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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1638
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(Undermining,) Undermynding, ppl. adj. [e.m.E. vndermining (1583); Undermine v.] Subversive. — 1638 Baillie I 133.
We took it all for a dangerous and undermynding plott … to have overthrown our assemblie
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