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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: <1375, 1375-1424, 1498-1575, 1646

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Priores, n. Also: prioresse, -us, -ous, -iws, -ice, pryores(e; proves (? erroneous form). [ME and e.m.E. prioress(e (c 1290), pryores, pryowresse (c 1440), OF prior-, prieuresse (13th c. in Godef.), med. L. priōrissa.] A prioress.12.. (? 1282) Reg. St. A. 343.
[Priorissa de Manuel
1328 Exchequer Rolls I 88.]
Priorisse Sancti Leonardi
a1400 Legends of the Saints x 307.
Thar dowchtyre … of his hand the vail scho tuk … & wes mad proves but wene Of twa hu[n]dricht virginis
a1400 Ib. xxx 376.
Scho passit furth til ane abbay … til here a mes & spak thare with the priores
a1400 Ib. xxxii 655.
The bischope gert than a nunry make … & blissit hyr as priores
1400 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 49.
An honorabile lady Dam Alice the Lyndesay Pryorese of the nunnys of Hadyngton
1424 Coldstream Chart. 43.
Priores
1498–9 Acts Lords of Council II 298.
Efter the tenore of Dame Alisone Hume priores of Northberwic
a 1509 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. viii 130.
Dame Elezabeth Hum priorice of the said Abbay of Ecclis nunray
1537–8 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I 198.
Resavit fra the priorus Northbervik of the said ald taxt
1537–8 Ib.
The priorus Caldstreme
1537–8 Ib. 228.
The priores Northberuik
1540 Lynd. Sat. 1831 (Ch.).
Speir at my ladie priores, Gif lechery be sin
1540 Ib. 3655.
This halie priores Is turnit into ane cowclink
1540 Ib. 265 (Bann.).
Pryores
1540 Ib. 3649 (Ch.). c1552 Id. Mon. 5878.
Ȝe abbot, pryor and pryores, Consydder quhat ȝe did profes
1558 Douglas Chart. 249.
Sester Crestan Bellindin, prioriws off the Senes
1573 Reg. Privy S. MS XLII 6 b.
Be the priorous and convent of Eccles
1574–5 Ib. (ed.) VII 12/1.
Issobell, priores of the abbay of Hadingtoun, and convent thairof
c1646 Craufurd Edinb. Univ. fol. 29.
For payment of an small revenue to an titular prioresse

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