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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1456-1599
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Saturn(e, Saturnus, n. [ME Saturnus (Trevisa) late ME and e.m.E. Saturne (c1400), Satourn (Lydgate), Saturn (1651), OE Saturnus, L. Sāturnus the god Saturn.]
1. The god Saturn in mythology.(a) a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 151.
Saturne … With lippis bla and cheikis leine and thin a1500 Ib. 172, etc. c1515 Asloan MS I 324/17.
Saturn and Jubiter his son goddis of the aire c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 114.
Thare saw I crabbit Saturn ald and haire 1513 Doug. viii vi 39.
And the pepill Sycany hecht alsswa By quham the land of Saturn war and wys Hes left [etc.] 15.. King Berdok 39.
Than Jupiter prayit to god Saturn In liknes of ane tod he wald him turn(b) 1456 Hay I 38/11.
A lorde callit Saturnus … the quhilk Saturne techit the folk of that contree to mak housis and labour cornis [etc.] a1508 Want of Wyse Men 9 (Ch. & M.).
That tyme quhen levit the king Saturnus c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 163/68.
Sum held he had bene Dedalus … And sum Saturnus kuke c1500-c1512 Ib. 111/75.
2. The planet Saturn.(a) a1500 Henr. Fab. 635.
Than Saturne auld wes enterit in Capricorne a1500 Id. Orph. 189 (Ch. & M.).
Throw the speir [= sphere] of Saturn ald, Quhilk fader is of all thir sternis cald 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 53/11.
Ane sterne callit Saturn quhilk is hie abufe al the laif of the planetis and for that cause it aperis verray litil to mennis sycht. It makkis reuolutione in thretty ȝeir [etc.] a1568 Bannatyne MS 266b/5.
Quhen Saturne is warme and Venus wicht(b) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxi 398.
& the mone … In heldyne was of Martis house & in the bowndis of Saturnus c1490 Porteous Noblenes 170/22 (Asl.).
The vij planet is Saturnus the planet of hunger deid & seiknes a1500 Bk. Chess 1, 7. c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 160/31.
Undir Saturnus fyrie regioun
