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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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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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