A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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Quotation dates: 1698-1699
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Untune, v. [e.m.E. vntune (1598); Ton(e v.] tr. To disturb (a person). —a1699 Fraser in Select Biographies II 188.
I … sought to humour them, and to comply with their fashions and sinful customs of healthing, which did much untune me, and wear away some of the former impressions
