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Quotation dates: 1500-1599
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Inarmit, p.p. and ppl. a.1 Also: -yt, inearmit, inairmeit, -ett. [Cf. Inarme v. and Enarmit.] Armed; in arms or armour. Also fig., armed, prepared.(1) 1513 Doug. xi. ix. 39.
Ȝour mortale fays inarmyt ȝou to assaill c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2150.
Mars, maid lyke ane man of weir, Inarmit weill with sword and speir 15.. Clariodus iv. 992.
Clariodus the knight, Inarmit on steid 15.. Ib. 1026.
All … Full weill at poynt inarmit [were] on steid 1574 St. A. Kirk S. 394.
Twa officeris inarmit wytht thair halbartis a1578 Pitsc. I. 205/3.
The said lord Dawid rydand all inairmett wpoun ane great gray curser a1578 Ib. 347/23.
They compeirit … in the barras baith inairmeit at all pairtis 1589 Criminal Trials I. 179.
Ane oist of thre thowsand men, persones inarmit 1592–3 Stirling B. Rec. II. 378.
The den of gild sall … visit the haill breither, how they are inarmit and repeirilit in their armorfig. 1596 Maxwell Mem. II. 187.
The nixt sessioun we sall cum bettir inarmit(2) 15.. Clariodus iv. 1032.
Doune gois the horse and the inarmit knight
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