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: 1551-1596
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Compendiouslie, -ly, adv. [ME. compendyously (1398), f. Compendious,a.] Briefly, in summary. —1551 Hamilton Catechism 7.
The prologe declaris compendiously how necessare it is [etc.] a1578 Pitsc. I. 4/22.
Wrettaris hes so compendiouslie Sett thir auld storries in ordour 1596 Dalr. I. 1/4.
The … preclair actes of the natione selfe compendiouslie to sett doune
