A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1498-1513, 1596-1649
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Lifeles, Lyfles, Liveles, a. Also: lifles, lyfeles, lyveles. [ME. lifles (12–13th c.), lyfles, ME. (c 1400) and e.m.E. lyveles, liveles(se, OE. lífléas.] Lifeless: wanting life, inanimate, dead; also fig.(a) a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 1067.
Baith hevyne and erd and lyfles creature a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 1569.
He … left hir lyand in the stra All mast lyfles ill farandly 1513 Doug. x. vii. 87.
Half lyfles [R. lyfeles] thi fyngyrris war sterand 1513 Ib. xi. i. 115.
Bot we hys lyfles child, quhilk aw na thyng Onto the goddis 1513 Ib. iii. 10.
Assuring hym thar mycht be led na weir On venquyst folkis that lyfles [R. lifles] mycht not steir 1513 Ib. 41.
All the lyfles [R. lifeles] banys And corpsis 1513 Ib. xiii. v. 7. c1614 Mure Dido & Æn. ii. 312.
Of all sense denude He long a lifles, senseles statue stood(b) 1596 Dalr. I. 62/21.
Excepte that thay war litle, lyueles and fethirles c1614 Mure Dido & Æn. i. 537.
The live-les pictures seeme to see, move, touchfig. 1649 Brechin Presb. 17.
Becaus of a dead and lyveles ministrie
