A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1513-1587, 1648-1687
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Ponderat(e, v., p.t. and p.p. Also p.p. ponderated. [e.m.E. ponderate (1626), L. ponderāt-, p.p. stem of ponderāre Ponder v.] tr. To weigh in the mind; to ponder; to appraise; to weigh, fig. —1513 James IV Lett. to Henry VIII in Hall's Union: Henry VIII (1548) f. xxx (OED).
The greate wronges and vnkyndnes done before to vs and our lyeges we ponderate [Leslie 89, ponderat] c1550 Rolland Court of Venus i 760.
Thay … To counsall ȝeid with ane aduisement, Ponderat weill the falt superlatiue 1586–7 Cal. Sc. P. IX 397.
The tenor of thei tway articles being weill ponderat a1649 Drummond Wks. (1711) 214.
The baseness of the deed would be ponderated 1687 Shields Hind Let Loose 717.
They weigh them only in the scales of ordinary justice, and do not ponderate them in the ballance of necessitated virtue
