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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1596
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Glut(t)ony, Glotony, n. Also: glutonye, -onie, glut-, glwtoné; gluttonie, -ounie, -unie, -eny; glotton(n)ie. [e.m.E. gluttony, -onie, ME. glotony(e, -eny(e, etc., glutunie (a 1225), OF. glutanie, -onie, glotenie, etc.] Gluttony.(a) 1456 Hay I. 250/8.
Glotony … oft tymes revis ressoun fra the mannis wit a1500 Bernardus 77.
Quhat man delitis … On glotony to waste a1500 Bk. Chess 1754.
Thir folk suld kepe thaim out of glotony 1531 Bell. Boece II. 108.
Na foule in the aire, nor fische in the seyis, had rest for his schamefull glotony c1590 J. Stewart 228 § 111.
Glottonnie cam ryding on ane sow 1596 Dalr. I. 250 marg.
He declynes into glottonie … and gredines(b) a1400 Legends of the Saints vi. 417.
The fyfte stage is … To keep men fra gluttony 1456 Hay II. 55/35.
Of the … sevin synnis glutony is ane of the werst c1420 Ratis Raving 1311.
Quhen thow art stad ocht narowly With irous wyll and gluttony 1490 Irland Mir. I. 72/11.
I haue synnit in glutony etand & drinkand oure mesoure c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxvi. 91.
The fowll monstir glutteny, Off wame vnsasiable and gredy 1533 Gau 20/1.
Auarice is aganis the vii [commandment], glwtone is aganis the vi 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xxiv.
Throw thair crapulus and schamfull glutone, thay ar strikin oftimes with … infirmiteis 1533 Boece viii. ii. 249.
Britouns, … neclecting the moderate temperance of ancient forefaderis, war gevin to glutony a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS xx. 10.
Hait … lichorie, All yre, sweirnes and glutonie 1596 Dalr. I. 30/5.
Consumed throuch the gluttunie of men, only in thrie places is [the wild ox] left 1596 Ib. 144 marg.
A man gyuen to drunkinnes & gluttounie
