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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1679-1685
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Modeli(e)d, ppl. a. [e.m.E. model'd (1670).] Of a military body: (Properly) organised. — 1679 Wodrow Hist. (1722) II. 60.
The Lord Macdonald, a professed papist, with a modelled army … hath remained in armes 1685 Marchmont P. 51.
The voluntiers that came from Holland, had chosen me to lead them as a modelld company
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