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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1475-1603
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Blisful, Blysful, a. Also: blis-, blysfull, blissefull. [ME. blisful (c 1175), f. Blis n.] Blissful, happy.c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace iv. 337 (now blisful, now in baill). 1490 Irland Mir. i. 166/2 (O blisfull quene). c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 95 (foulis blisfullest of chere). c1500-c1512 Id. xlvi. 6 (a blisful brenche of lawryr). 1513 Doug. xii. Prol. 95 (blisfull blossummys); xiii. Prol. 166 (the byrdis blisfull bay). c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5934 (that blysful band). 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 63/21 (ane that bure the blysful byrth). 1603 Philotus cxiii. (O blisfull Deitie diuyne).
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