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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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Lethall, a. [e.m.E. lethal(l (1613), L. lēt(h)ālis.] Of a wound: Directly causing death, fatal, lethal. —1625 Justiciary Cases I. 20.
It is … to be provin be the doctour … that it [the wound] was nocht lethall bot in vena hepatica and that he curet him
Ib.
The wound was nocht of it self lethall bot became incurable ex malo regimine

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