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: 1492-1605
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Cocatrice, Cok(k)atrice, n. Also: cocca-, cocka-, cokcatrice, co(c)ketrice, cokatris, cokkatryce, cokintrace; koca-, kokatrice, kokkatrys. [ME. coca-, co(c)ka-, kokatrice (Wyclif), etc., OF. cocatris.] A cockatrice. Also applied to persons.1492 Myll Spectakle of Luf 275/7.
Secundus comparith the woman vnto a kokkatrys that invennomyt men with the sicht c1515 Asloan MS I. 169/21.
Merwalus bestes and dragonis, … cocatrice & basiliskis a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 295.
Invennomit lyk a cokkatryce [M. coketrice] a1508 Ib. 521.
Conspiratour, cursit cokatrice [B. koka-, M. cokkatrice], hell caa 1535 Stewart 17751.
That cokcatrice, full of crudelitie, To all this warld so odeous wes he 15.. Clariodus ii. 276.
Full tyrranlie as feindlie coccatrice 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 1224.
O cocatrice that will not ken thy awin conscience 1562-3 Winȝet II. 61/15.
Eschew, … as fra a scorpioun, as fra a cokintrace, leste thai slay thee a1568 Scott xiv. 5.
As the kocatrice keilis with hir sicht a1605 Montg. Flyt. 472.
That cammosed cocatrice they quite with them carie
