A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1490, 1590-1597
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Terrene, adj. [ME and e.m.E. terrene (14th c.).] a. Secular, temporal. b. Of the earth, earthly. c. Of the nature of earth. —a. 1490 Irland Mir. III 93/27.
The terrene powere resauis the spiritual power to gouerne it 1490 Irland Mir. III 155/12.
The noble king and prince terrene … is his loue tennand in temporalite —b. c1590 J. Stewart 261 § 242.
That terrene caduct corps of thyne Thy saull deteins —c. 1597 James VI Dæmonol. (STS) 21/10.
The humor of melancholie … is blacke heauie and terrene
