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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: 1608
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(Tonably,) Tunably, adv. [e.m.E. tunably (1586).] Tunefully, harmoniously. — 1608 Criminal Trials II 269.
Hee named the sixt psalme … in euerie verse or line thereof hee went before the people, singing both lowd and tunably vnto the very end
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