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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1450-1513, 1567

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Deformit, -yt, ppl. a. [ME. deformed (c 1400).] Misshapen, disfigured.c1450-2 Howlat 250 (B).
I am deformit, q[uod] the foull, with faltis full fele
a1500 Henr. Abbay Walk 26.
Thocht thow be blind, … Or in thy face deformit ill
a1500 Bk. Chess 1536.
Deformit was his face to se
c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxiv. 18.
A crippill, or a creatour Deformit as ane oule be dame Natour
1513 Doug. viii. iv. 176.
Of Cacus the deformyt carion
1567 Satirical Poems iii. 7.
Ane king at euin, … At morne bot ane deformit lumpe of clay

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