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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1375, 1499-1586
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Algate, Algait, adv. Also: allgat(e, all gait, algayt. [ME. algat, algate, earlier alle gate, ON. alla gatu every way: see Gate n. In later use evidently after Chaucerian models.] Always. 1375 Barb. xii. 362.
Our lordis … Will all gat [E. allgate] ficht agane the richt a1500 Lancelot of the Laik 1792.
Efter thar estate Thei have vorschip, and kepith it al-gat a1500 Ib. 1996.
Cheris them that wertews ben algait 1513 Doug. ix. Prol. 40; etc.
The muse suld with the person aggre algait 1554 Duncan Laideus Test. 160.
Seing fortune this [= thus] algait with ws rin a1570-86 Maitl. Maitland Folio MS clxxx. 15.
Quhat baronis sall in thi court remaine … it to decore all gait
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