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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: 1475-1586

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Fructuous, a. Also fructuus, -teous. [ME. (1382) and OF fructuous, L. fructuōsus.] Abounding in fruit. (Chiefly fig.)a1500 Henr. Fab. 2583.
Becaus the sentence wes fructuous
c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ix. ii.
He comfort has … All fructuous thing in till the erd
1490 Irland Mir. I. 132/9.
The maist fructuus lady that euir was
a1500 Tale of the Colkelbie Sow iii. 123.
I can nocht say … The fyiftie part, thay wer so fructeous
1513 Doug. i. viii. 68.
Ane noble land … And fructuus grond
1513 Ib. xii. Prol. 80.
The feildis ferleis of thar fructuus fleyce
1531 Bell. Boece I. p. iv.
Mony … epistillis, contenand richt fructuus and moral doctrinis
c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1518.
The erth … Afore quhilk fructuous was and fair
a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS lxxxi. 9.
Thy predecessouris … Quhois fructuous faitis … maikis thair fame perpetuall

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