A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1535-1538, 1595-1602
[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
Incorrigibill, -eabill, adj. [ME. incor(r)ygibile (a 1340), e.m.E. -igible, L. -ibilis.] Incapable of being corrected. —a1538 Abell 571 b.
Sche consalit the king to mend him bot sche saw at he wes incorrigibill1535 Stewart 40212.
Faltis vglie and horribill, The quhilk in me I knaw incorrig[ib]ill 1595 St. A. Kirk S. 811.
That he deleat to the ministrie … all incorrigeabill personis 1602 Colville Parænese Ep. ii.
The church … may iustly, vhenas any of hir members becum incorrigibill, sned tham of as inutill
