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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1416-1571
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Lol(l)ard, -art, n. Also: (lullard.) [Late ME. loulard (1415), late ME. and e.m.E. lol(l)ard (c 1440), MDu. lollaerd lit. ‘mumbler, mutterer’, applied in the 14th c. to certain semi-monastic orders or sects, and latterly = heretic.] A heretic.(See also 'The Lollards in Scotland during the Fifteenth Century' in The Works of John Knox Collected and Edited by David Laing I. (1846) App. ii pp. 494 f.)1416 St. A. Univ. MS. in McCrie Melville I. note D.
[Jurabitis quod ecclesiam defendetis contra insultum Lollardorum 1436 Copiale Prioratus Sanctiandree 136.
Cum interpretacione eorum ad modum hereticorum Pregensium [= Hussites] et aliorum Lollardorum a1447 Bower Scotichron. I. 441.
Conclusiones et libelli istius hæretici [sc. Wyclif] adhuc a nonnullis Lolardis habentur in Scotia, et curiose servantur ex instinctu Diaboli a1447 Ib. II. 495.]
Qui nusquam … requiem dedit hæreticis vel Lolardisc1420 Wynt. ix. 2774.
All lollard [C. lollaris] he hatyt and heretike 1424 Acts II. 7/1.
Anentis heretikis & lollardis that ilk bischop sall ger inquyr be the inquisicione of heresy quhar ony sik beis fundyne 1456 Hay I. 12/15.
A man that … traistis to lollardis and fals prechouris 1456 Ib. 16/34.
Thai hard hertit heretikis and lollardis, quhilkis ar dispairit of the faith of God 1456 Ib. II. 29/8.
Quhen a knycht is … a lollard, scismatike or heretike … than is he unworthy for to lyve a1500 Tale of the Colkelbie Sow i. 88.
Scho callit to hir cheir … A lumbard a lolard a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 524.
Judas, Jow, juglour, lollard [M. lollart] laureat a1508 Ib. 548.
Pickit, wickit, conwickit, lamp lollardorum [B. lullardorum] 1558-66 Knox I. 8.
In the year of God 1494 war summoned befoir the King and his great counsell … the nomber of thretty personis … .These war called the lolardis of Kyle 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 13.
Saif vs … From unbeleue and lollardis [v.rr. lollar(e)is] lair, And Deuillis doctrine mair or les 1571 Satirical Poems xxix. 43.
Sa, lolarts, ȝour hypocrisy that sa fane ȝe wald hyde, Ȝe se … dois peice and peice owt slyde
