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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: 1499-1500, 1630

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Flourisching, Floorishing, vbl. n. [e.m.E. flourishing (1580).] Flourishing; blossoming. —a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. (1593) 198.
Baith fruit and flourisching 1630 Mun. Univ. Glasg. I. 242.
To the honour floorishing and benefeit of the said colledge

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