A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1537-1599
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Univers, Wnivers, n. [ME and e.m.E. vniverse (Chaucer), vnivers (1589), F. univers, L. ūnivers-.] The world; Earth. Also attrib. —attrib. c1590 Fowler I 80/89.
The Lord … Who gowerneth all this vniuers, and reullis this massiue round 1587-99 Hume 18/38.
This machin round, this vniuers, this vther warld He wrocht —attrib. a1538 Abell 2a.
The seynt day He passit fra new werkis, nocht that he sesit fra administratioune & conseruatioune of wniuers creaturis
