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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1549
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Dissimilit, Dissimulit, ppl. a. Also: dissym(i)lit, -similet, discymilit; dissymulit. [Late ME. dissimuled (1475).] Dissembled, disguised; simulated, feigned.(a) c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxvi. 47.
Him followit mony freik dissymlit [M. dissimilit] 1531 Bell. Boece I. 41.
Ferquhard, … with dissimilit mind, … complanit … the slauchter of Nathak 1533 Boece xi. xii. 431 b.
Mony assistit to him in dissimilet amyte 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 74/16.
Ȝit the maist subtel nor the maist dissymilit of ȝou al is nocht saue 1549 Ib. 153/24.
The subtil discymilit pleisant interpretatione of Cresus vordis(b) 1531 Bell. Boece (M) I. 61.
Ferquharde … with dissimulit mynde … complenit [etc.] 1533 Boece vi. vii. 198.
Thare chiftane was … ane dissymulit theif 1533 Ib. x. vi. 358 b.
Thai weyit sa hevilie to be skornit be the dissimulit polecye of Pichtis
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