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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Tymously, adv. Also: tym(y)sly, tymo(u)slie, tymouslye, tymmo(u)slie, tymuslie, tymeously, -ie, timously, -ie, timeously. [Tymous adj.] a. Early (in the day, season, etc.). b. Promptly, expeditiously; by the due time; opportunely.a., b. 1473 Reg. Cupar A. I 188.
A chalder of quhet als arly and tymsly sawn as it ma be 1474 Reg. Cupar A. I 186.
Tymysly c1475 Wall. viii 1180.
To souppar went, and tymysly thai slepe ?a1500 Rosw. & Lillian 555.
On the morn right timously He did rise up 1538 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 198.
That thai vill caus schir Thomas Skune to do mes at ony altar … tymously for his vaigis 1566 Reg. Privy C. I 490.
Ennemeyis … may … tak occasioun … to revenge [etc.] quhilk the nobilitie and counsall tymouslie foirseand, hes [etc.] 1571–2 Reg. Privy C. II 126.
Quhairthrow the said Thomas Kennedy … may be dewlie and tymouslie adverteist thairof a1597-1617 Hist. Jas. VI (1825) 200.
Tymoslie 1598 James VI Basil. Doron 127/2.
A king man tymouslie marrie for the ueill of his people c1610 Jok Uplandis Newis 4b.
Timouslie 1627 Aberd. Council Lett. I 275.
Diligentlie and tymouslie to put the same to executioun 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 348.
Except they timeously repent and turn to the Lord 1639 Aberd. B. Rec. III 190.
The schollares … does not tymouslie keip the houris of thair convening and dissolving as is prescrywit 1643 Melrose Reg. Rec. I 104.
To teill muck saw and harrow … als sone and tymeouslie as uthers nighboures in these townes does 1644 Inverness Rec. II 185.
To be at thair randivouize … at the leist be sex horis in the morneing, to the effect they may marche tymeouslie towardis the said expeditioune 1644 Melville Chart. 172.
It becumes all Christianes tymuslie … to dispose of thair worldlie effaires 1646 Lanark B. Rec. 329.
Quhilk bridge … is lykelie to decay except the same be tymeouslie beatit and reparit a1658 Durham Comm. Rev. 54.
The Lord will discover it timously … to the person concerned 1660 Aberd. Council Lett. IV 2.
We think fitt … yow be heir … four dayis befoir the day of generall meitting that bussiness may be prepaired tymeouslie 1665 Forbes Baron Ct. 266.
All brewer … l[y]abill for brew tallon sall pey it in tymmoslie 1665 Forbes Baron Ct. 266.
Tymmouslie 1680 Banff Field C. (1903-4) 44.
Tymouslye 1685 Edinb. B. Rec. XI 136.
Ther serveants be in raddines to cast in ther fulȝie … and ashes tymeously in the morneing each day … at the first toute of the cairters horne
