A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1456-1490
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Vegetative, Vigitative, adj. [ME and e.m.E. vegetatyf (Trevisa), vegetative (1477), F. végétatif, med. L. vegetativus, ppl. stem of vegetare.] Having the power of growth. —1456 Hay II 157/10.
Man has bathe saule vegitative that he lyfis by, sentitive that he felis by [etc.] 1490 Irland Mir. III 87/23.
We se in the man mony … greis of perfeccioun, and the les perfeccioun is … subordinat … to the mar, as the power vigitatiue to the sensitive, and the sensitiue to the intellectiue
