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: 1558-1665
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Car(e)les, Cairles, a. [e.m.E. carelesse (1548), ME. careles, kareleas, OE. carléas.] Careless, negligent.1558-66 Knox II. 254.
Yf ye … declair your selfis cairles ower the treu religioun 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 57.
Ane cairles hart a1570-86 Arbuthnot Maitland Folio MS xxx. 4.
Cairles cativeis full of cursidnes 1599 Reg. Privy C. VI. 57.
[Sheriffs] cairles and vnmyndful of the dewtifull discharge of thair officeis 1600-1610 Melvill 423.
The King and Commissionars bathe war carles of him 1615 Highland P. III. 284.
If ȝour Lo[rdship] sall kythe cairles or slouthfull and sluggishe 1665 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 218.
Finding the said James to be cairles and negligent in his office
