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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1589-1614
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Mutinerie, Mutenery, -irie, n. [e.m.E. (once) mutinery (1563), OF. mutinerie.] A mutiny, an uprising, a rebellion. — 1589 Cal. Sc. P. X. 94.
Thair arose a great mutinerie agenst my Lord Hammiltoun —1600 Colville Palinode 32 (see Murmuratio(u)n n. 2). — c1610 Melville Mem. 50.
He caused secretly steir vp a mutenery amang the men of wair for want of ther byrun waiges c1610 Ib. 334.
Ther salbe a mutenirie raised within the toun be our frendis … sa that the town salbe obtenit without straik 1614 Highland P. III. 170.
Off the affaires off Ila and that mutinerie thair
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