A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1499-1500, 1584-1605
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Cumly, -lie, adv. Also: cwmelie. [e.m.E. comely, ME. comly, commli (c 1300).] In a comely or becoming manner. —a1500 Taill of Rauf Coilȝear 265.
Ane burely bed, … Closit with courtingis, and cumlie cled a1500 Golagros and Gawane 1058.
On Crist cumly thay cry 1584 Edinburgh Testaments XIV. 70.
Beseking the parochinaris … to ordoure that place mair cumlie & decentlie than it has bene a1605 Montg. Flyt. 86 (T).
Thow cwmelie conductit thy termes on ane slaid
