A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1456-1588
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Temporal(l)ie, Temporaly, adv. [ME and e.m.E. temporally (c1380).] a. With regard to earthly life or secular affairs. b. For a time, with a limit as to time.The Hamilton Cat. quot. in a may belong in b.a. 1456 Hay I 20/25.
As evill bitter wateris gerris mony folk dee temporaly, sa dois … heresy and lollardry the saule dee spiritualy 1528 Lynd. Dreme 201.
Thay [sc. prelates] maid nocht equale distributioun Off haly kirk the patrimonie and rent Bot temporallie thay haue it all mispent 1551 Hamilton Catechism 39.
Punitions quhilk God sendis to synnaris temporallie, spirituallie and eternally 1588 King Catechism 6b.
Quhairbe he was baithe temporallie conceavit in Nazarethe, and borne in Bethleem, vnder the Empriour Augustusb. 1490 Irland Mir. III 64/28.
Thame that deis in deidly syn He punysis eternaly and thame that deis in syn venial … he punysis temporalie 1562-3 Winȝet I 125/29.
As it plessis his godly fatherheid … to puneis ws temporalie
