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: 1500-1552, 1604-1605
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Purifyit, -et, Purefeit, Puryfyide, Puryfyde, ppl. adj. [Purify v.; 17th c. Eng. purifyed (1623).] Purified, cleansed, in senses of the verb. —a. 1513 Doug. viii x 68.
The lyght legharnes … Witht gold and burnyst laton puryfyde [Sm. puryfyide] … he dyd aspy a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 31 (L).
The air was … Baith purefeit and cleirb. c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxvi 41.
Hail, purifyet perle! c1552 Lynd. Mon. 260.
Iesu, Quhilk wes … Incarnat of the purifyit Uirgin trev
