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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1456, 1554-1578
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Dispisar, n. Also: dyspysare, dispeisar, -pysser. [ME. dispiser (Wyclif), despisar (a 1340). Cf. Despisour.] A despiser, contemner. a1400 Legends of the Saints xl. 723.
Sancte Ninian … Lofare of vertu & dyspysare Of the warld 1456 Hay II. 64/2.
Dispisaris of the ordre and inymyes to knychthede 1554 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 199.
Dyueris and syndry evill gevin personis, dispittaris and dispeisaris of the jugis of the burgh a1578 Pitsc. I. 63/18.
Thow … dispysser of the hollie kirk cursingis
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