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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1679-1680
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Tolerably, adv. [e.m.E. tolerably (1485), tollerably (1580); Tolerable adj.] Moderately well, passably. —a1680 Blair Blair 595.
He was confined to the parish of Musselburgh, where he continued in pretty good health, and tolerably accommodated, till September 1662