A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Adulterar(e, n. and a. Also: adulterair, adultrar(e, -air. [f. Adultery, like the e.m.E. adulterer (16th c.), for the earlier avouterer.]
A. n. 1. An adulterer; an adulteress.14.. Acts I. 380/2 (wikyt misdoaris, adulteraris). c1450 Cr. Deyng 100 (Dauid the adultrare). 1513 Doug. xi. vi. 106 (the sle adultrar). c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 53 (his lufe was ane adulterair). 1557 Reg. Cupar A. II. 143 (noterlie knawing adulteraris). a1578 Pitsc. I. 408/33 (idolatouris and adulteraris).
B. adj. Adulterous.c1520-c1535 Nisbet Matt. xvi. 4.
Ane euile generatioun and adultrare [orig. auoutresse] sekis a taken
