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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1420-1596
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Blist, Blyst, ppl. a. [Reduced form of Blissit, corresp. to ME. bleste (c 1400), e.m.E. blest.] Blest. c1420 Wynt. vi. 558.
Efftyr the blyst Natyvyte c1420 Ib. vii. 335.
Goddys body blyst werray c1450-2 Howlat 996.
Now blyth us the blist barne c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace xi. 1316.
A blyst byschop a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 195.
The blist Trinite c1515 Asloan MS I. 328/27.
The bukis … of the iiij blist doctoris c1515 Ib. 316/13.
Having victorie … in that blist batell c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 235.
That ilk band, that ȝe so blist call 1513 Doug. iii. iii. 3.
The figuris of our goddis blist c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3707.
His blyst incarnatioun 1570 Satirical Poems xxiv. 77.
Ȝour bastard bischop blist 1596 Dalr. I. 106/22.
Priestes, quha may … minister the blist sacrament
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