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Quotation dates: 1500-1605
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Rubeat(o)ur, n. Also: -iature, -iatour; rebeatour, -ure; -iatour. [Of unknown origin.] A scoundrel; an immoral or unprincipled person. Only in verse.(a) c1500-c1512 Dunb. (S.T.S.) xiv 44.
Sa mony tratouris, sa mony rubeatouris [BD rubeaturis, M. rebiatouris], Within this land was nevir hard nor sene 1536 Lynd. Answ. Flyting 48.
For lyke ane boisteous bull ȝe rin and ryde Royatouslie lyke ane rude rubeatour 1540 Id. Sat. 4254. a1568 Scott xxxiv 83.
Rubiatouris 1570 Satirical Poems xiv 94.
The trew liege be the rubiature In this cause salbe kend, O Lord 1584 Sempill Sat. P. xlv 147.
For laik of rowme that rubiature Bespewit vp the moderator a1605 Montg. Flyt. 819 (T).
Rubiatour, fornicatour by natour, foul fa thé(b) c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 244 (M).
Bair rebeatour theif of natour fals tratour and feyndis get c1500-c1512 Ib. 401.
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