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: 1570, 1630-1700+
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Peremptorily, -lie, adv. Also: peremptourie-, -tore-; perremptori-. [e.m.E. peremptorilie (1548).] = Perem(p)to(u)rly adv. 1 a and c. —a. 1570 Leslie 88.
The saide meiting of oure and your commissioneris at the bordouris wes peremptourielie appointit betuix you and us 1661 Red Bk. Grandtully II. 155.
Cassiles is to give his determinatt answer … peremptorilie to-morrow 1663 Justiciary Ct. Rec. I. 79.
Peremptorily 1691 Glasg. Univ. Mun. II. 360.
That the university meet perremptorily on the 10 of October 1701 Dunkeld Presb. II. 324.
To keep peremptorely the next dayb. 1630 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 46.
Thus peremptorilie hazarding all and therwith his lyff
