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: 1499-1589, 1641
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Commodious, -ius, a. Also: -ios, -iouse, -(i)eous; comodius, -iows. [ME. commodious (c 1440), med. L. commodiōsus.] Commodious, convenient, serviceable. Also as adv.a1500 Tale of the Colkelbie Sow ii. 234.
Hald nocht pennyis our pretious, Bot suffer thame pas prospering commodious 1528 Douglas Corr. 16.
Quhen ony materis occurris quharinto ȝour supple is commodius 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. lxi.
Thair is na region … mair commodius and nurisand of the life of man 1533 Boece i. iv. 39.
Thai fand … commodios pasture to thare catall 1533 Ib. ii. ix. 74.
This werk baith commodios and curios 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 8/24.
Sciens, craftis, ande mecanyke occupations, maist comodius and conuenient for the public veil 1576 Protocol Book of A. Millar 34.
To mak thair ȝaird mair rowme & commodieous 1581 Acts III. 240/1.
The said toun … is maist commodeous and ewest to the haill inhabitantis of Badȝenochis, Bray of Angus [etc.] 1589 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 6.
To pas and visy the place maist commodius thairto 1641 Acts V. 568/1.
He hath built a kirk … in ane comodiows & fitt place
