A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Comper(e, Compeir, v.1 [OF. comperer.] tr. To compare.1375 Barb. i. 403.
Till Ector dar I nane comper Off all that euir in warldys wer 1456 Hay II. 90/23.
Thare is richesse that may be comperit to gude fame and gude renoune c1475 Wall. x. 344.
Nocht at Gadderis … Mycht till him be comperd in tha houris 1490 Irland Mir. I. 58/36.
The hevin … , comperit to the saule of man, is of litle waloure a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 1409.
All temporale riches comperit to hevinlie blis Is bot a birding Ib. 1415.
Comperand it to our pure pilgrimage 1596 Dalr. I. 1/17.
Quhen our cuntrey men began to compeir the vices … with the vertuez quhilkes in thair cuntrey sumtyme excelled
