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: 1420, 1576, 1657-1692
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Usuall(i)e, adv. Also: uswally, usewally, -ie, wsullay. [e.m.E. usuelly (1477), usually (1485).] Usually, customarily. b. On more than one occasion, repeatedly.c1420 Wynt. v 5680 (see Wynt. v 5692 (W) in Usual(l adj. 2).
Usualle 1576 Scottish Notes and Queries XII 42.
When the queenes maiestie dooth remooue from anie one place to another there are usuallie 400 carewares 1657 Balfour Ann. IV 348.
This bewrayethe ther policey, thoughe presbeterey be wsullay attendit therwith 1675 Rec. Old Aberd. II 68.
Reported … that men and boyes uswally playit kils [ed. kits] in the Snow Kirkyard 1689 Acts XII 64/1.
The saids estates … assembled … doe in the first place as thair antecestores in the lyke caices have usewally done 1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1933) 74.
Nor are they perceaved to be in great pain, save that they are usewally silent and sullen 1692 Glasgow B. Rec. IV 57.
The … weiveris in Gorballis should not give more to their journeymen prentises than what was usewallie payed be the freemen weiveris of Glasgow to their journeymenb. 1661 Rothesay Par. Rec. 42.
Quhilk day [16 May] delated Elspeth NcLaine for singing usuallie a badie song … [6 June] Compeired Elspeth NcLane and acknowledged that she sang severall tymes the challenged bady song
