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Pituous, -wos, a. Also: pyt-. [ME. pituus ( ? a 1300), pitevous (c 1350), pituouse (c 1380), pityuous (c 1400), pytewys (c 1420), pit(t)euouse (1422), pituous (1442), pytewouse (1471), e.m.E. pytuose (1537), f. as pitous Pitous a. with altered suffix, after words with etymological -uous, -ivous, or OE. adjs. in -wis. Cf. Piteous a., also Petuo(u)s a.] = Piteous a. 1 and 2. — c1475 Wall. v. 238.
As he was … makand a pytuous mayne [etc.] 1569 Q. Mary in Cal. Sc. P. III. 2.
[To the Queen, our good sister] lamenting our pituous estait — a1586 Lindsay MS. 24 b (see Peteo(u)s a. b).
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