A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lourdly, -lie, adv. [Lourd a.] (To lie) heavily, inertly (on one); (to err) grossly, flagrantly. —c1590 J. Stewart II. 25/366.
Doune falls the king and mycht not rais his cors, Deed vas his steid quhilk on him lourdlie lay c1590 Fowler II. 30/34.
To the quhilk I ansuer (correcting thé in the word quhairin lourdly thou hes errit) that God did not compell thee to execuit sic outrage against me ?16.. Forbes Disc. Pervers Deceit 9 (Jam.).
Howsoever both he and the easterne churches with him might have fallen so lourdly, yet would all the western churches … have not only beene silent at so sacrileglous a derogatlon of the faith [etc.]
