A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1450-1476, 1563-1596, 1683
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Raisonable, Rasonable, -abyll, adj. Also erroneous for raisonablie: ransuably. [OF raisonable: cf. Reso(u)nabil(l adj.] Reasonable or rational, in various senses of Reso(u)nabil(l adj. —c1450 Craft of Deyng (S.T.S.) 184.
Sic folkis suld erar be callyt bestis vnraconable than man rasonable 1468 Lindores A. 163.
Tyl he shwth a ransuably caws why he declynyt his balȝe1476 Peebles B. Rec. I 177.
Fwll power to mak rasonabyll tenandis [etc.] 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 16.
And now is raisonable that [etc.] 1596 Dalr. I 140/19.
His wisdome is of a rasonable renoumne and reputatione 1683 Laing MSS I 430.
If that be a raisonable thing, I leave to your lordship to judge
