A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1533-1623
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(Wondirous,) Wonderous(e, Wound(e)r(o)us, adj. Also: vond(e)rus, uoundrouse. [e.m.E. wondrous (a1500), wonderous (1509).] Wondrous, amazing, astonishing; excellent of its kind.(a) 1558-66 Knox I 371.
This wonderouse wark of God in his suddane death 1558-66 Knox II 100.
This maist wonderous conjunctioun betwix the godheid and the manheid in Chryst Jesus, did proceid from the … decree of God c1590 J. Stewart 65/25.
Vondrus signe of his magnanime spreit(b) 1533 Bell. Livy I 192/16.
Quhen he had schewin all his visioun, to the grete wounder of all pepill present for the time, followit ane vthir mirakil mare wounderus [B. vonderus] than was sene afore c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2248.
Boccatious Hes wryttin workis wounderous Off Gentilis superstitioun, And of thare gret abusioun 1580-92 James VI Lusus Reg. 26.
As daufins louis all bairnis in uoundrouse sort, As by the contrair crocodiles thaime kill 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 4/5.
The mightie father of the Muses nyne … declared his woundrous will, That [etc.]
