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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: 1420-1599

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Dolorous, Dolorus, a. Also: dollorous, -rus. [ME. dolorous (c 1400), OF. doleros, etc., L. dolōrōsus.]

1. Affected by sorrow or grief; sorrowful, sad, melancholy.1456 Hay I. 58/31.
Al the tame bestis … worthyt sa dolorous, that it semyt that thai gret for sorow
1513 Doug. i. v. 9.
Ontill hym spak Venus All dolorus
1513 Ib. xii. ii. 149.
Syne comfortis he hys ferys dolorus [Sm. dolorous]
1535 Stewart 59484.
King Henrie … Richt dolorus wes for his brotheris deid
c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 1474.
Nor Cresseid for trew Troylus Wes not tent part sa dolorous
1562-3 Winȝet I. 25/5.
I being drery and dolorus for the schisme and diuision presentlie in Godis Kirk
1572-5 Diurnal of Occurrents 94.
The haill lordis … with dollorous hartis departit
a1585 Maitland Quarto MS xxxviii. 48.
The dayis licht makis me moir dolorous

2. Characterized by, expressive of, sorrow or sadness.1456 Hay II. 59/36.
The quhilk puttis thame in ire and in passioun dolorous contynualy
c1500 Rowll Cursing 104 (B).
All thir about the beir salbe Singand ane dolorus dergie
c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxiv. 29.
Behald my deidlie passioun dolorous
1513 Doug. i. iv. 78.
This dolorus dreid expell and do away
1513 Ib. ii. v. 57; etc.
I … with sik dolorus wordis thus began
1531 Bell. Boece I. 57.
The wiffis … past out of Berigone with dolorus spraichis
1531 Ib. 66.
Cadall come … in dolorus array
1549 Complaynte of Scotland 14/34.
He herd neuyr the dolorus trompet sounde befor the iunyng of ane battel
1549 Ib. 71/5.
Sche ansuert vitht ane dolorouse contenens
c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4782.
Adew the daylie dolorous derigeis
a1578 Pitsc. I. 104/15.
The Earle of Crafurde came … in dollorus and poore arrayment
1591-2 Rob Stene 13.
All our dollorus dayis ar past

3. Causing pain or grief; painful, severe.1456 Hay II. 119/36.
[They] oft tyme has felloun passioun in thair wame … with dolorous having
c1420 Ratis Raving 678.
Vyninge of thaim [riches] is cowatice, Tynsell of thaim is dolorus
a1500 Henr. Orph. 168.
I thé beseike … Direct me fra this deid sa dolorus
a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 789.
To the perpetuale fyre … of hell, In dolorus dirknes with devillis thair to duell
c1500-c1512 Dunb. viii. 17.
O duilfull death! O dragon dolorous!
1513 Doug. ii. vii. 79.
This dolorus sycht Chorebus mycht nocht se
1513 Ib. xi. xv. 130.
This dolorus wond so has me dycht
15.. Clariodus v. 2527.
To behold the sight was dollorus
c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3224.
Of this fair lady coragious, Behald the ending dolorous
1558-66 Knox II. 414.
The wordis that come to my earis wer dollorous to my hairt
1567 Satirical Poems iii. 183.
Quhill [I] … feill deithis dartis dolorus
a1578 Pitsc. I. 222/11.
The paine was werie dolorous to him

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