A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Peregrine, -gryne, a. and n. [e.m.E. and ME. peregryn in ffaucon peregryn (Chaucer), -grine foreign, outlandish (c 1530), on a pilgrimage (1655), also as noun = sojourner or traveller abroad (1570), L. peregrīnus foreign, also a foreigner. Cf. F. peregrin a. and n.] a. adj. Foreign, alien: alien to the matter in hand, irrelevant; ? alien in beliefs, dissident. b. noun. A pilgrim. = Pilgrim n. —adj. 1558-66 Knox II. 243.
Curiouse peregryne and unproffitable questionis ar to be avoided 1585–6 Melvill in Misc. Wodrow Soc. I. 439.
Mr. craig to preach openly against the peregrine ministers —noun. a1586 Lindsay MS. 32 b (see Pelegrin n.).
