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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Insufferabil(l, -abyll, a. [Cf. obs. F. insouffrable; e.m.E. -able (1586).] Not sufferable, insupportable, unbearable. —1528 Lynd. Dreme 300.
Allace, our panis ar insufferabyll
1531 Bell. Boece II. 228.
The frute and cornis, throw insufferabil heitis of the simer, failyeit
Id. Livy II. 173/15.
Nor ȝit the armye to be irkit with our ythand and insufferabil lauboure

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