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: 1550-1560
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Upȝald, v. [ME and e.m.E. vp ȝelde (1297); Ȝeld(e v.] tr. To yield, resign, give up, in fig. senses. a. Const. pen, to cease writing. b. Const. gaist, spreit, to ‘give up the ghost’, to die. Only in Rolland. —a. c1550 Rolland Court of Venus iv 742.
For pennance my pen I heir vpȝald —b. c1550 Rolland Court of Venus ii 250.
Aucht hundred knichtes … At ane iornay the gaist he gart vpȝald 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 4670.
Ȝour dochter the spreit scho will vpȝald
