A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1552-1630
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Monkrye, Munkrie, n. Also: monkré, monkerie, monkyré, munkerie. [e.m.E. monkrye (? 1536), monkery(e (1549); f. Monk n. with -ry suffix (also in harlotry, knaverie, ladry, lounry, ribaldry, etc.): but cf. also MDu. monikerie.] (? More or less contemptuous in all instances.) a. Monks, collectively. b. A community of monks, a monastery. —c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4669.
All monkrye, ȝe may heir and se, Ar callit denis, for dignite c1552 Ib. (1806) 4784.
Fareweil monkrye [v.r. monkyre] with chanoun, nun and freir 1558-66 Knox II. 188.
We … requyre … abbayis, monkeries, freireis, nunreis … to be utterlie suppressed 1581 Acts III. 276/1.
The monkreis ar altogidder abolishit 1606 Rollock's Thess. 307.
Away with munkries and nunries c1630 Scot Narr. 9.
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