A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1513-1535, 1588
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Unfructuous, -uus, -fruictuous, Onfructuus, adj. [ME and e.m.E. unfructuous(e (both Wyclif); Fructuous adj.] = Unfructfull adj. b. —1513 Doug. iv Prol. 19 (Ruddim.).
Ȝour sport for schame ȝe dar not specifye Ȝour frute is bot vnfructuous [C. onfructuus, Sm. vnfructuus] fantasye 1513 Doug. Epil. i 4 (Ruddim.).
I … in myne undantit ȝouth Unfructuous [C., Sm. onfructuus] idilnes fleand [etc.] c1520-c1535 Nisbet Ephes. v 11.
And will ye nocht comoun to vnfructuous [P. vnfruytouse] werkis of mirknessis 1588 King Catechism 135.
Be ȝe nocht partakers of the vnfruictuous warkis of wickitnes
