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: 1420-1560
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Compile, Compyle, v. Also: compil, -pyl(e, conpile. [ME. compile (1387), -pyle, OF. compiler, L. compīlāre.]
1. tr. To collect or bring together in writing.c1420 Wynt. ii. Prol. 24.
Off his storys tha wyll I Compyle, that me thynk mast lykly Tyll oure matere accordande 1456 Hay I. 303/5.
Suppos I mycht ȝit compile and gader togedir mony thingis of mysgovernaunce that he suld eschew a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 60.
Worthie Chauceir, in the samin buik, … Compylit hes his cairis
2. To compile or compose (a book, etc.).1456 Hay I. 303/12.
He sais … he sall compile a trety of proprieties of gude condiciouns 1456 Ib. 20.
The prince that he has compilit this wrytt for c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace v. 540.
He was the man … That fyrst compild in dyt the Latyne buk Off Wallace lyff c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 1.
Ane thing thair is compild … be Kennedy and Quinting 1513 Doug. ii. Prol. 2.
Melpomene, on thé wald clerkis call For till compyle this dedly tragedy 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 143/3.
The preist of Peblis speris ane questione in ane beuk that he conpilit c1552 Lynd. Mon. 628.
Had Sanct Ierome bene borne in tyll Argyle, Into Yrische toung his bukis had done compyle 1560 Rolland Seven Sages Prol. 146.
I thocht it best … This lytill buke in verse for to compyle
b. To give an account of, to describe.c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 72.
Ȝour aureate tongis both bene all to lyte For to compile that paradise complete c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4661.
I … may nocht tary to compyle Off ilk ordour the staitlye style
3. To bring about by union.1535 Stewart 37966.
At thair plesour sic peax for to compyle
