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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1475-1478
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For(e)-time, n. [e.m.E. (1540).] Of fore-time, previously. — c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace iv. 522.
Off for tyme thar he spyit had the toune 1477–8 Reg. Episc. Glasg. 461.
The said Schir Alexander … present erd & stane of fortyme deliuerit … eftir the forme of the lawis
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