A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Flattery, Flat(t)ry, n. Also: flatery, flatterie, -errie, -irie, flat(t)rie. [ME. flaterie (c 1320).] Flattery.(a) a1400 Leg. S. xxx. 20.
Thru wischraf & sorcery, & … thru flatry of kerlyngis a1570-86 Kennedy Maitl. F. lxxi. 36.
Flattrie is fosterit baith with freyndis and fais 1513 Doug. viii. Prol. 100.
Quhat flattry and quhat fals talys! 1570 Maitl. F. xxx. 26.
Flatrie preuales, treuth makis inemitie 1596 Dalr. II. 474/24.
Frie of onie suspicione of … adulatione or flatrie(b) 1456 Hay I. 216/3.
Nocht for fleching na flatery 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 396.
Full of dissimilit payntit flatterrie a1578 Pitsc. I. 103/22.
All they that fed him with sic flatterie 1596 Dalr. II. 474/22.
To incur the blek of adulatioune or flattirie
b. Attrib. or as adj. Flattering.1533 Boece ix. ix. 306 b.
The flattery persuasioun of the pepill Ib. xii. vi. 465.
Quha … has his flattery wordis maist suspect
