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: 1375-1438, 1499-1599
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Bedene, adv. Also: bedeyn(e, bedeine. [ME. bedene, bydene, bidene (c 1300), of uncertain origin.] Altogether, completely; fully, continuously; forthwith, straightway.Almost exclusively a rhyme-word and frequently only a rhyme-tag. See also Albedene adv.1375 Barb. xv. 108.
To the castell … come schippis xv [= fiftene], Chargit with armyt men bedeyne [E. bedene] a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxiv. 226.
He baptyste hyre, & mad clene Of al hyr firste synnis bedene c1420 Wynt. v. 3499.
All the yheris war oure-gayne Off Constantyne and Julyane, And all the empryowrys be dene, That betwene thame twa had bene c1420 Ib. ix. 394.
Bot thai, that had his cuminyn sene, Tuk on thame the flycht bedene ?1438 Alex. ii. 1647.
I Haue sene Baith hors and man ga doun bedene a1500 Golagros and Gawane 29.
He fand … Bot deip dalis bedene, dovnis and dellis a1500 Ib. 319.
Frenȝeis of fyne silk, … with deir dyamonthis bedene a1508 Kennedy Flyting 422.
Traistand to haue … reward and benefice bedene c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxv. 41.
Haile, clene, bedene, ay till conteyne! 1513 Doug. i. ii. 33.
Warp all thar bodeis in the deip bedeyn 1513 Ib. vii. vii. 129.
So swellis up the skum and bellis bedene 1535 Stewart 2548.
With that the Britis arrayit thame bedene 1535 Ib. 15681.
And so thai did first to the king and quene, And lordis all, syne to the laif bedene 15.. Clariodus iii. 536.
ȝe sall the morne gar call to ȝow the Queine, And all ȝour maist familiaris bedeine 1570 Satirical Poems xvi. 32.
In Edinburgh quhen thay conuene, Our Lords to him thay gang bedene
