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: 1560-1578
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Comfortable, -abill, a. [ME. comfortable, -abill (14th c.), AF. confortable: see Confortable.] Comforting, pleasant.1560 Rolland Seven Sages 8442.
This chylde … Meik and humane, in maners comfortabill 1562-3 Winȝet II. 3/1.
The mony comfortable exemplis of the haly Scriptuir a1578 Pitsc. I. 374/9.
In silk and gold, in cullouris comfortabill
