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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.

Quotation dates: 1456-1490, 1626

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Mesurit, Mesurd, Measur'd, ppl. a. [Late ME. (c 1400) and e.m.E. mesured, measured.] a. (Common only in Hay.) Moderate, temperate, avoiding excess; (freq. in reference to speech) restrained; exercising, or showing, restraint or moderation. b. Limited, finite. —a. (1) 1456 Hay I. 154/2.
For that is bot temporaunce of diffence, resonable and wele mesurit
1456 Ib. 300/29.
It efferis wele till a king … to be mesurit in thair maner of eting and drinking
1456 Ib. /34.
He suld be wele mesurit in his brethe
1456 Ib. II. 116/8. c1490 Porteous Noblenes 176/6 (Asl.).
Natur makis ane gud hart to be mesurit and fle ewill deidis
(2) 1456 Hay I. 300/22. 1456 Ib. 302/29.
And here atour he suld be temperit in his word … and be mesurit that he think alwayis before or he speke
1456 Ib. II. 92/32.
To speke bot lytill and wele mesurit langage
c1460 Thewis Wysmen 170.
Nocht our-gret-wordy na our blait Bot mesurd ferand thar estat
b. 1626 Garden Worthies 84.
Who for there countrie … doe fight, Bot limitat and measur'd glorie gains

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