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: 1405-1520, 1576
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Fulfilling, vbl. n. Also: fulfillinge, -fillyng, -fillyn, -fylling, -fyling; fowfylling. [ME. fulfillinge (1382), Kentish volvellinge (1340).] Fulfilment.(a) 1405 Maxwell Mem. 146.
To the mar sykirte and fulfilling of al thir poyntis 1437 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 5.
Quha beis obstinate or inobedient to the fulfilling of this ordnance 1443 Reg. Great S. 86/2.
At the quhilk hede court … Gilbert askit of us fulfillinge of law 1482 Edinb. Chart. 156.
To the observing, keping, and fulfilling of all … thir promittis, bandis, and oblisingis 1520 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 200.
For the … keping and fulfilling of the premissis and euery poynct tharof 1576 Rec. Earld. Orkney 140.
Robert Onsta till pay ane dumraw to the bailȝe for nocht fulfilling of the former decreet(b) 1486 Stirlings of Keir 256.
Gif it happinnys, … me … to faylȝhe … in the fowfylling and completing of the thingis … abown writtin
