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Quotation dates: 1473
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Said-foure, ppl. adj. [Said ppl. adj.; Fore adj. Appar. a nonce-inversion of For(e)said adj.] Aforesaid; previously-mentioned. — 1473 M. Napier Mem. J. Napier App. 514.
The said Schir Alexander sal require the said-foure Duc of Burgunȝe that [etc.]
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