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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1420, 1533
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Summité, -yté, Sumité, n. Also: summytie. [Late ME and e.m.E. summyte, summitee (c1440) summitie (1571), OF summité (14th c. in Larousse), late L. summitāt-, f. summus highest.] The summit, the highest point. — 1375 Barb. iii 706 (C).
Sum [sc. ships] wald be Rycht on the wawys summite [edd. 1620, 1670 summitie] And sum wald slyd fra heycht to law c1400 Troy-bk. ii 1665.
Wyntir … frome hicht of the sumiteis Descendand amongis the waleis c1420 Wynt. i 984.
The hill off Cawcasus, On est half fra the Caspys Se Swa rysand in tyll summyte [W. summytie] 1533 Boece 311.
Apoun the summyte and hicht of all towris
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