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

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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Mar(e)over, adv. Also: mair-, mayr(e)- and -ovir, -ouer, -ir, -ower, -ir, -yr, -our(e, -owr(e. [North. e.m.E. mareouer (Cath. Angl.). Cf. Mor(e)over.] Moreover. = Mar(e)atour(e.1499 Douglas Chart. 172.
And mayreoure, the said master … offered [etc.]
1499–1500 Acta Conc. II. 410.
And mareowre
c1515 Asl. MS. I. 327/30.
Mair owre the xij artikillis … aggreis to the xij prophettis as followis
Ib. 329/27.
And mar owr
1533 Boece viii. ii. 249.
Britouns … war gevin to glutony, … mareoure followit inhumane crudelite
c1520-c1535 Nisbet III. 333/29.
[St. Paul] commendis the … werkes of faith, sic as [etc.] … ; mairour baldnes, traist [etc.]
1546 Pitsc. II. 67/1.
Mairovir
1551 Hamilton Cat. 24, 77.
Mairowyr, -ouir
1557 Black Bk. Taymouth 200.
Mayrouer
1573 Tyrie in Cath. Tr. 15/13.
Albeid the promeis he maid to the Romane Kirk we schaw mairour that [etc.]
1580 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 174.
Mairowir
1596 Dalr. I. 6/15. Ib. 23/8, 37/2.
In all kynde of stuffe and cattell it [Britain] abundes. … Beare mairouer it bringis
1600-1610 Melvill 29.
Mairower, in these yeirs I lerned my music
1616 Crim. Trials III. 393.
And ȝit mairouer, becaus thair is particularelie deidlie feid [etc.]
1657 St. A. Baxter Bks. 126.
Mairower it is concludit that [etc.]

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