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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1605
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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] a1500 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 1535 Ib. 6886.
Woyada, … Of pulchritude that tyme quhilk had no peir 1535 Ib. 16283.
His pulchritude 1535 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 Bannatyne MS 86a/29. a1578 Pitsc. I 358/17 (I). a1585 Maitland Quarto MS xlviii 129.
I houp sa peirles pulchritud Will not be voyide of mansuetud a1585 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 c1500-c1512 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 Bannatyne 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.. Clariodus 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
