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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Impertinently, adv. [e.m.E. (1563).] Irrelevantly. —c1590 Fowler II. 13/23. Ib. 37/16.
The probations of his propositions, quhilks are … impertinently brocht furth of the scripteurs
