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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Dispit(e)fully, Dispyt(e)fully, adv. [f. Dispit(e)full,a. Cf. e.m.E. despitefully (1535).]
1. With hostility or malice; spitefully, cruelly.1375 Barb. xiii. 70.
In hy apon thame can he ryde, … Strikand thame sua dispitfully, … That thai thame scalit Ib. xvi. 632.
Thai … slew thame sa dispitfully, That all the feldis strowit war Of Inglis men c1475 Wall. ii. 193.
My faithfull fadyr dispitfully thai slew c1515 Asl. MS. I. 223/22.
The forsaid Sir Gilbert … harllit & led thaim away rycht dispytfully 1533 Boece i. v. 42.
Ony persoun be aventure reparing in the boundis of vtheris … dispitefully was slane c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3993.
Dispytfullye, Thare awin sowldiouris full gredelye Reft thame that flesche 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 300.
The said cuntrie men … schote dispytfullie the pairtie of Edinburgh without 1596 Dalr. II. 77/23.
Donald, quha hated the king afor sa dispytfullie, now louet him sa weil, that [etc.]
2. Scornfully, contemptuously.c1475 Wall. ii. 390.
Till him he raid, and said dispitfully, ‘Thow Scot, abide’ c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3852.
Quham gatherit I wald haif to gidder, … Quhilk thay refusit dispytefullye 1600-1610 Melvill 135.
I hard him als dispytfullie and lightlifullie … tak upe my uncle, … as movit me … to almaist debord c1650 Spalding I. 87.
The scolleris … rave thame [the service books] all in blaidis dispytfullie, and kest them in the sea
