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Quotation dates: 1399-1556
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Cunnand, (ppl.) a. Also: -ande, cwnnand, connande, conand. [Northern ME. cunnand (c 1300), pres. pple. of Cun v.] = Cunning ppl. a.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints vi. 202.
Thomas … tuk a lange red in his hand, As man of craft that vare cunnand c1420 Wynt. v. 3882.
The byschope chargyd till hym than The archedene, a cwnnand man c1420 Ib. 4323.
Men off gud dyscretyowne Suld excuse, and love Huchowne, That cunnand wes in literature 1427 Acts II. 13/1.
The dekyn of ilk craft sal … se at the werkmen be cunnande and the werk sufficiande 1456 Ib. 45/2.
[To have] in ilk cart twa gunnys … and ane cunnande man to schut thame a1500 Prestis of Peblis 354.
Thai, as men of wisdome … , Had laid thar speche apon ane cunnand clerk 1513 Doug. i. Prol. 10.
Glaidly wald I … till ilk cunnand wight la to my myne eyr 1513 Ib. vi. iii. 15.
Misenus, Eolus son, nane mair cunnand, Ostis to assembill 1535 Stewart 2940.
He hes gart seik … Of euerilk craft or art that wes cunnand, Bayth smyth and wricht [etc.] 1556 Stirling B. Rec. I. 70.
The said Sir Johne sall study continualie quhill he be cunnand in prikat sang(b) c1420 Wynt. ii. 627.
He kende the men off that cuntré Off wynys the subtylyte, Quharein he conand [C. connande] was in alle c1420 Ib. v. 5260.
Be thi werk I ken thow art a connand clerk
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