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: 1572, 1700+
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(Unsesonabilly,) Unsessonabilly, -billie, Unseasonablie, adv. [e.m.E. unseasonablie (1588), vnseasonably (1589); Unsesonabill adj.] At an inappropriate or inconvenient time, inopportunely. —1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 28.
He come in sa unsessonabilly or the stage wer prepairit and furnischit, that … he fand the candillis not ȝit lichtit, and all the provisioun for the play out of ordour 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 29.
[The] ambassadour … come in suddanely upon thame, God wait full unsessonabillie 1704 Rothesay Par. Rec. 185.
Being interrogate whither he did frequent her company unseasonablie
