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: 1558-1669
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Moderatly, -lie, adv. [e.m.E. and ME. (1398) moderat(e)ly.] In a moderate manner, not extravagantlv or to excess. —1558-66 Knox II. 314.
Ane admonitioun to behave thame selves moderatlie in all thingis a1570-86 Maitland Maitland Folio MS xciv. 68.
Thairfore ȝoung wyfis … moderatlie to leif now leir 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. ii. 64.
The wife may give almous moderatly without consent of hir husband 1639 Scottish Notes and Queries i Ser. XII. 59.
That … na browster sell aill before preching excep to strangers that may moderatlie serve in thair breakfast 1669 Red Bk. Grandtully II. 193.
Which [exercises] I wold have you to doe moderatlie, lest it wrong yourselfe
