A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1490-1509, 1600
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Actually, -lie, adv. [e.m.E. (1587). f. Actual a.] In act or action; in reality. —c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 52/22 (actually, habitualy, or vertualy). 1509 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. II. 338 (to deliver actualy the confirmacione). 1600 Hamilton Facile Tr. 22 (to be actuallie done).
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