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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1490, 1550
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Velocité, n. [e.m.E. velocitie (1555).] Speed. — 1490 Irland Mir. III 77/1.
This sacrament … fortifyis the saule … to pas with mar velocite to the glor eternall c1550 Rolland Court of Venus ii 672.
Thay bad him pas with all velocite To the Gracis
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