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: 1500-1550
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(Disprising,) Disprysing, vbl. n. [f. Dispris(e,v.] Disparaging, contemning. —1500 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 86.
William Paterson [and] Patrick Lowieson convict be ane assyse vpoun the disprysing of William Todrig, baillie, invadand him with … drawin swordis c1550 Rolland Court of Venus ii. 179.
In sic effairis we haue experience, Bot be no way in Venus disprysing
