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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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(Vowit,) Voued, ppl. adj. [e.m.E. vowed (1532).] a. Bound by a religious vow. b. Indicative of a solemnly held belief. —a. 1581 Burne Disput. 189.
This quhais first fructis var … to demolish kirkis, to mak nonis and freris spulȝie thair closteris, the voued men to rin auay vith harlattis, the professed men to steil auay temporal mennis vyues —b. 1630-1651 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 17.
The Catteans … when they come to rype yeirs … suffer their hare and beard to grow at lenth and … never put off that voued ornament of the face, and as it wer a bond of vertue, untill they have killed ane enemy: vpon blood and spoyle they vncover ther forhead
