A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1501-1513
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Purgit, ppl. adj. [Late ME porgede (1486), purged (?a1500), f. Purg(e v.] Cleansed, cleaned, purified. —1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 56.
Fortill behald … The purgit air with new engendrit heit [etc.] 1513 Id. Æn. viii iii 202.
Eneas … Dyd of perpetual oxin fillettis eyt, And purgit entralis, clepit clengyng meit [Vergil lustralibus extis; Ascensius i. purgativis que ad expurgationem oblata erant]
