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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1572-1584
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Scrible, v.1 Also: skribbill. [Late ME and e.m.E. scrible (c1465), appar. f. late med. L. scrībillare (L. conscrībillāre) dimin. of L. scrībere to write. Cf. Germ. skribbeln.] To write hastily or carelessly. Also const. out. — 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 137.
I am irkit, and ganging to sleip, and ȝit I ceis not to scrible all this paper in sa meikle as restis thairof 1584 Colville Lett. 57.
I haif skribbillit out ane melancolnis letter to the desolat nobill men
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