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: 1499-1599
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Disfigurat(e, -ait, a. [ME. disfigurat (Chaucer), L. disfigūrātus.] Disfigured, deformed.a1500 Henr. Fab. 968.
Defylit for ay is … the fauour of thy face, For thy defence is foull and disfigurate 15.. Clariodus iii. 2248.
This Lord beheld his sone, … and was amervellit for to se Him disfigurat in so low degrie 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 5893.
[He] Intill his face was sa disfigurait … that euerie kinde of stait Abhorit sa his vgsum foull visage 1570 Satirical Poems x. 16.
Ane woundit man, … Deid eyit, dram lyke, disfigurat was he c1590 Fowler I. 276/53.
Thy creature behold disfigurat quyte
