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: 1461-1605
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Permanent, a. (adv.) Also: par-. [Late ME. and e.m.E. permanent(e (a 1450), -ent (Caxton), L. permanens, pres. p. of permanēre to stay to the end, F. permanent (14th c.), OF. per-, parmenant (13th c. in Godef.).] Permanent, in the usual senses.
1. Of things, material and non-material: Continuing indefinitely without change; lasting, enduring. b. adv.(a) 1461 Liber Pluscardensis 386.
Sen we haue heire na cete permanent 1490 Irland Mir. I. 34/10.
That the collacioune of all gud … be ferme and permanent to ws 15.. Dunb. App. iii. 32.
Quha perfytly wald imprent Sowld fynd his luve moist permanent 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 213.
In thé I see no thyng bene permanent 1533 Boece i. vi. 46 b. a1568 Bellenden Bannatyne MS i b/34.
Thy word eterne but end is permanent 1567 Satirical Poems iv. 181.
In earth … sen nocht is permanent(b) c1552 Lynd. Mon. 544.
Parmanentb. 1527 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 85.
That all vittallis … be set down in ony hous and thair to stand permanent unsauld quhill twa efternown
2. Of persons: Steadfast, unwavering in some virtuous course. Also transf.(1) 1561 Q. Kennedy Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 180 (G).
[Christ] borne off the permanent virgen and moder meyk a1570-86 Arbuthnot Maitland Folio MS xxix. 167.
It is thocht vyce now to be permanent 1577–8 Waus Corr. 165.
I will request your L. to stand permanent off that sam mynd a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xvii. 96.(2) transf. a1568 Bannatyne MS 236 a/13.
Ane trewar hairt may noman haif Nor ȝit ane hairt moir permanent
