A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Quotation dates: 1528-1632
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(Wondirous,) Wonder(o)us, Wounderous, adv. Also: vonderous, wondrous(e, vondrous, wondderous, wounderows, -eris, vunderrus, wynderous. [e.m.E. woonderous (a1557), wondrous (1678).] As an intensifier: Very extremely, exceedingly. Cf. Wondirfullie adv.(a) 1561 Q. Kennedy Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 179 (G).
I thynk ȝour saying wonderus godlie 1562 Reeves Sc. Prose bef. 1600 79.
Ane vondrous greit pictoure of ane man callit Golyas … viij faddoum heicht and v faddoum of thiknes 1562-3 Winȝet I 23/19.
I iugeit the teching of the ȝouthhed in vertew and science … sa necessar … that the dewe charge and office off the prince and prelate withoute it is to thaim, efter my iugement, wonderous pynefull and almaist importable 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 207 (B, D) (see (b) below). 1573 Sempill in Sat. P. xxxix 211.
Ane wondderous sorie man a1578 Pitsc. I 274/16.
Thay war vondrous tyrd and foirgeine and trachled gretlie in travell a1578 Pitsc. II 9/9.
This ambassadour of Ingland … was wondrous euill entreattit in Scotland a1578 Pitsc. II 152/1.
The quene heirand this was wondrouse commovitt 1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. 64.
Thrauing the scripturis to a vrang sense, quhilk … apperis vonderous probable to men [etc.] 1590 Burel Pilgr. i 7.
The wood wes gret and wondrous lang 1632 Lithgow Trav. v 229.
We found this auncient well so wondrous deepe, that scarcely all our ropes could sinke our bucket in the water(b) 1528 Lynd. Dreme 222.
It wes ane sycht rycht wounderous lamentabyl[e] 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 207.
Say weill in danger of deith is cauld, Do weill is harnessit, and wounderis [B., D. wondrous] bauld a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS 66/6.
Ladies … Quhan thay ar ȝung … Thay do appeir for to excell Sa wounderows moy thai mak it(c) 1559 Analecta Scotica II 381.
[He] thocht the mater wynderous difficille to be obtenit 1564–5 (1583) Reg. Great S. 171/2.
We may nocht help to bige, fortifie nor repair the samen sodanlie throch greit exactiones yeirlie payit and appeiring to be payit wynderous far by the use and custome usit in oure predicessouris dayis(d) c1554 Makeson Genesis 80.
Abraham … To haif ane sone of quhais successione Dissend suld kingis vunderrus mony
