A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1375-1566, 1622-1626
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Capital(e, a. Also: -all(e, capytale, -alle. [ME. capitale (a 1225), -all(e, etc., F. capital, L. capitāis.] Capital, chief (in various senses).(1) 1375 Barb. iii. 2.
The lord off Lorne … That wes capitale ennymy To the king c1420 Wynt. viii. 3020.
Be … fals suggestyowne That was made hym … Be oure capytale innymys c1420 Ib. 4185.
To thare fays capytale To wyn off were than that castale 1456 Hay I. 245/7.
Quhen a capitale and mortale inymy haldis in his power the principale party advers 1522 Douglas Corr. 83.
The Duke of Albany … is capitalle and dedelie inimye to me(2) 14.. Acts I. 380/2.
All tha that ar arettit or blamet with the chef capital crimes 1456 Hay I. 243/25.
Thare folowis … payne capitale, that is to say, the hede 1456 Ib. 244/24.
The lawis that ar callit capitale lawis in sik materis 1558-66 Knox II. 227.
Murthour, periurie, and uthir crymes capitall(3) c1420 Wynt. iv. 2343.
C, that lettyre capytalle c1420 Ib. vi. 237.
A lettyr capytale … off fyne gold … made c1420 Ib. 2289.
Off this lawch are thre capytale 1622-6 Bisset II. 134/14.
At the fourt and last capitall heid courte
