A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1438, 1498-1500
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Grevand, Grewand, ppl. a. [f. Greve v.; cf. late ME. grevinge (c 1450).] Grievous, painful, hurtful. —a1400 Legends of the Saints xxi. 811.
Bot ymang vthyre paynis sere, … The maste grewand of ony ane Is that thai had vatir nane ?1438 Alex. ii. 4674.
Gif he be tane … , This bargane weill les grewand is ?1438 Ib. 8543.
The battaill hard and greuand is a1500 Henr. Fab. 712.
I wald, swa it wer licht, Schort, and not grevand to my tendernes, Tak part off pane a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 1233.
Till aggrege that gravité grevand, The furious fyre and panis infernall
