A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1597-1611
[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
Muttering, Muttring, vbl. n. [e.m.E. (1513), f. e.m.E. and ME. (14th c.) mutter, muttre, moter v.] Muttering, murmuring. — 1597 James VI Dæmonol. 18.
The conjured spirit appeares … after … long praiers, and much muttring and murmuring of the conjurers 1611 Melvill in Fugitive Poetry II. ii. 4/14.
And soone a lowder voice their muttering stayes
