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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1549
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Verisimile, adj. [L. vērisimilis. Cf. 17th c. Eng. verisimilar (1681).] Probable. — 1549 Lamb Resonyng 81/9.
Nebour, it is verisimile that a nobill, vaillieant, vertius, lovit kyng be his people all his dayis as this Kyng Malcolme of Scotland wald haue subdewit him-self, his fre realme without straik or schak of swerd, for Polidor makis na mentioun of battell
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