A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1420, 1475-1513
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Onone, Onon, One-one, adv. [ME. on one (Manning), on oone (Trevisa), early ME. onon: cf. On-ane, Anone.]Appar. only in early verse, esp. Wynt. and Doug. Æn., and chiefly written as one word. In Leg. S. and Wynt. chiefly or only in rhyme, in Wynt. chiefly with personal or place-names, as Jhone, Sampsone, Babilone, Macedone.
1. Directly, in a straight course.1513 Doug. vi. v. 1.
Fra thyne strekis the way profund onone Deip onto hellys flude of Acheron
2. Forthwith. = On ane adv. 1.Also sone, syne onone, onone rycht, immediately, quickly.(1) a1400 Legends of the Saints iii. 87.
One one [: Dyone] a1400 Ib. xxxvi. 594.
& he alsone Gert mak a costlyk kirk on one a1400 Ib. xlv. 124.]
[One ane [: sone] c1420 Wynt. v. 350. c1420 Ib. ii. 480; etc.
Herrode als … Exylide he gert be onone [: Jhone] c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace i. 422.
Till him thai raid onon or thai wald blyne c1475 Ib. ix. 34. c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 239.
Onone quhen this amyable had endit hir speche [etc.] c1500-c1512 Ib. 264.
Quhen it nedis ȝow onone note baith ther stranthis 1513 Doug. ii. ii. 34.
He … on this wys onone begouth to say 1513 Ib. viii. 1. 1513 Ib. iii. ii. 7.
Furth of the havin we salit al onone [: gone] 1513 Ib. iii. 40.
Get vp onone 1513 Ib. iv. 75.
Addres ȝe thus to mak bargane onon [: Laomedon]? 1513 Ib. v. xiii. 29; etc.(2) c1420 Wynt. ii. 396.
Hame thai passyd sone on one [: Symeon] c1420 Ib. iv. 970. c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace viii. 92.
And sone onon [etc.](3) c1420 Wynt. v. 2868.
The Pape Sylvestyr syne onone [: wysione] Baptyst this Constantyne c1420 Ib. iii. 37, v. 2855.(4) 1513 Doug. iv. x. 2.
Euery wery wight … hath caucht onon rycht The sownd plesand sleip
