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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1487-1540
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Unthirl(l)it, -thrallit, -thrald, p.p. [e.m.E. unthralled (c1586), set free, 19th c. Eng. (1865), not subjugated, unrestrained; Thirl(l v.2] Not enslaved or subjugated (to another, etc.). Also fig. —(a) 1531 Bell. Boece I 148.
We … hes kepit us evir unthirllit to Romane dominion 1533 Bell. Livy II 48/8.
Sa lang as Coriolos stude fre and vnthirlit to Romanis —(b) 1487 Black Bk. Taymouth xxxvii.
That ye … kepe him unthrallit, bot to remane in siclike fredome and liberte of the said relik, like as is contenit in the said infeftment —fig. 1540 Lynd. Sat. 516 (B).
I trest few in this cumpany … Vnthrald to sensualitye
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