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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1572
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Mischevious. [Variant (? erroneous) of Mischevous a. 2 b, perhaps merely editorial for mischeiuous rather than a unique early instance of the 17th c. Eng. (1648) and mod. Sc. and Eng. dial. form mischievious.] —1572 Reg. Privy C. II. 121.
To the sustentatioun … of thair inischevious querrell and tressonabill attemptattis
