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Quotation dates: 1399-1420, 1475-1500, 1569-1586
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(Reulit,) Reulyt, Rewlit, Rewllyt, ppl. adj. Also: rowlit. [ME and e.m.E. ruled (Chaucer), reuled (1406); Reul(e v.] (Weill or il) reulit, (well or badly) controlled or disciplined.Also, without adj. = well-conducted; well-disciplined.(1) a1400 Legends of the Saints xl 1132.
Me think ȝe [of] il rewlit wil Gyf ȝe vald sla … A presoner c1420 Ratis Raving 430.
A qualyte of temperans Is ay weill reulyt c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace v 599.
Scho … war … Weyll rewllyt off tong a1500 Bk. Chess 1985.
Falset … suld nocht ryng in no weile rewlit tovne a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS 196/63.
Ane wantoun hird and ane weill rewlit flok … accordis nocht(2) c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace viii 559.
Sic rewllyt men … he ledis in wer c1475 Ib. ix 309.
Twa and fyfty … salust him With rewllyt spech [etc.] 1577 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs I 51.
His hienes instructionis … be the quhilkis thay salbe rowlit and ordourit
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