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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1400, 1499-1599
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Al bedene, adv. Also: all bedene, -deine, -deyn, albedein. [ME. al bidene, albedene, etc. (a 1300): see All adv. and Bedene adv.] Forthwith, at once. (Used only in rhymes.) 1375 Barb. ii. 399; etc.
Quhen schir Amer has sene The small folk fle all bedene a1400 Legends of the Saints vi. 104; etc.
Quhen thai had that sicht sene, Thai war abasit al bedene a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 2215.
Than gart he hed thaim all bedene c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 85.
There saw I May … Quham of the foulis gladdith al bedene 1513 Doug. v. xi. 71; etc.
Thir fey onhappy schippys al bedene Lat ws go byrn 15.. Clariodus iii. 12; etc.
Thay his ordinance had seine Quhilk on the sea war cumand all bedeine
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