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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1599
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Hail(l, interj. 1 Also: haile, hayle, hale. [ME. heyl, hail (c 1200), ellipt. or interj. use of hail a. (see Hale a.); cf. ON. heill, and OE. hál, similarly used.] Hail! Also all hail (ME. alhayle, c 1400).(1) (a) c1420 Wynt. i. 915.
Hayle [W. haill, Mary,] full of grace, and God with thé c1450-2 Howlat 727.
Haile, blissit mot thow be c1450-2 Ib. 732, etc. a1500 Henr. Fab. 289 (A).
Thus maid thai mery … And ‘Haile, ȝule, haile’ thai cryit apon hie c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 104.
Haill, souerane senȝeour! c1500-c1512 Id. v. 11.
‘Ourtane fallow, haill’ 1551 Hamilton Catechism 273.
Hail, Marie, ful of grace a1568 Bannatyne MS 134 a/35.
‘Haill or haill, quhat do ȝe now?’ a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS xlv. 24.
It is eith to cry hailȝule one ane vtheris mannis cost(b) c1500-c1512 Dunb. lix. 4.
Hale, ros intact c1500-c1512 Ib. 37.
Hale, qwene serene, hale, most amene 1531 Bell. Boece II. 259.
‘Hale, Thane of Glammis’ 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 8088.
‘Hale, Father deir’(2) a1400 Legends of the Saints iii. 665.
‘Alhale, thu blissit croice’ 15.. Clariodus iv. 2150.
‘All hail! the eard awcht ȝow to honoure’
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