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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1513, 1567-1600
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Cupide, Cupeid, n. Also: Cupyte, Cupaid. [ME. Cupyde (Chaucer), L. Cupīdo.] The god Cupid.The later form Cupid, and the L. Cupido, were also in use in the 16th cent. a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 134; etc.
O fals Cupide, is nane to wyte bot thow c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 110.
Cupide the king, wyth bow in hand ybent c1500-c1512 Ib. lxxxiv. 7.
All thair traist is in thair god Cupeid [: dreid] 1513 Doug. i. xi. 1.
Now passith furth Cupide 1513 Ib. 33.
The schyning vissage of the god Cupyte [: quhyte] a1568 Scott xxxiv. 41.
Ȝe cry on Cupeid king, And Venus quene, in vane 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 219.
Lat vs … neuer think on Cupides dart c1600 Montg. Suppl. 198/1.
King Cupaid, gracles god of glaikes
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