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: 1499-1505, 1584-1690
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Purg(e)in(g, -yn, vbl. n. [ME and e.m.E. purgynge (Wyclif), pourgynge (1398), porgynge (1553), f. Purg(e v.] The action of purging, in senses of Purg(e v.(1) 1505 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 105.
For purgeing and clengeing of the hie streitt(2) 1591 Bk. Univ. Kirk II 782.
Bot in this cause being chiefly occupied in purging the members of thair awin bodie, quhilk is ecclesiastick 1591 Ib.
So they wald not think evill that the Kirk proceid in purging of thair awin body 1654 Cramond Ch. Aberdour 25.
The minister … desires they [the elders] may be exhorted to assist him cordially in purging communions, pressing family duties [etc.] 1690 Misc. Spald. C. II lxiv.
The necessity of purging and planting of the churches on the north side of Tay(3) 1629 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. III 4.
The … purging of the land frome suche a mischaunt persoun 1654 Dumfries Council Min. 11 May.
The comissioners apoyntit for pvrging the quarteris of vnnecessr inhabitants(4) 1603 E. Melville Godlie Dreame 262.
Is this, said I, the Papists purging place? 1603 Ib. 266.(5) a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 1191.
He hatit women sa odious That he wald neuer ly with nane Quhill he with seiknes was our tane For falt of purgyn of his nature(6) 1584 Gowrie P. 41.
After the purgin himself, [that] he informed not nor gave consell to the kings advocat in his contrare [etc.]
