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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: 1533, 1609, 1660

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Exemplare, -ler, a. [Late ME. exemplair (a 1475), e.m.E. exemplar, F. exemplaire, L. exemplāris.] Exemplary. —1533 Boece ix. x. 312 b.
His exemplare vertew to all his pepill was sa venerabill
1533 Ib. xiii. viii. 529.
Ane man of … exemplare life
1609 Criminal Trials III. 48.
To omit nothing that may haisten ane exempler pwneishment vpon him
1660 Lithgow Poet. Rem. 264.
Let King Josias, and thy grandsire be, Exemplare types and speaking maps to thee

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