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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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Pulc(h)ritud(e, n. Also: puchritud. [Late ME pulchritude (c 1400), e.m.E. pulchritude (a 1548), L. pulcritūdo.] Beauty.Attributed to persons, esp. women, animals, places, flowers and spiritual qualities.(1) a1500 Bk. Chess 447.
And quhen eh saw hir passing pulcritud [:stud] Ib. 1472.
The vergyne was of sic a pulcritud 15.. Edinb. Univ. MS La. iv 6.
Hir pulcritud is nixt to pris 1533 Boece 189.
His flurissing ȝouth and pulcritude of persoun according togidder with vertewe thareto annext c1530-40 Stewart Bann. MS 88a/5.(b) 1535 Stewart 4260.
Hir pulchritude Ib. 6886.
Woyada, … Of pulchritude that tyme quhilk had no peir Ib. 16283.
His pulchritude Ib. 56378. 1540 Lynd. Sat. 501, 526, 530. c1552 Id. Mon. 792.
Adam preceld in pulchritude Most naturall, and the farest man That euir wes a1568 Bann. MS 86a/29. a1578 Pitsc. I 358/17 (I). a1585 Maitl. Q. xlviii 129.
I houp sa peirles pulchritud Will not be voyide of mansuetud Ib. lxxi 1. a1605 Montg. Misc. P. 1 9. c1600 Montg. Suppl. iv 44.(2) c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxvii 2.
Ȝing tendir plaunt of plesand pulcritude Ib. lxxxix 5. 1535 Stewart 5754.
O peirles prince and perle of pulchritude 1540 Lynd. Sat. 340. a1550 Ave Gloriosa 97.
Specull of pulcritude a1568 Bann. MS 218a/11.
Of puchritud the fair figour c1600 Montg. Suppl. i 49.(3) 1535 Stewart 16917.
Ane hound he had … Plesand, but peir, and full of pulchritude(4) 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1414.
I saw ane plane of peirles pulchritude c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxv 74.
Pulcritud 1528 Lynd. Dreme 580.
That plesand place, repleit of pulchritude 15.. Clar. iv 976.
The queinis scaffold … Whilk schynit all of pleasant pulcritude 1596 Dalr. I 15/35.
The pulchritude of quhilke temple … may esilie contend with mony kirkes(5) c1552 Lynd. Mon. 850.
Of the flowris pulchritudis(6) 1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. 147.
S. Chrysostome … callis the pulchritude of the inuart man the … gift of the haly spreit

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