A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Duply, v. Also: dupley. [L. duplicāre, on analogy of reply.]
1. tr. To double in amount.1533 Bell. Livy I. 167/14.
This dett … was ay duplyit on him be vsure and okkir
2. Law. a. intr. To make a second reply.1504 Stirling Chart. 68.
[Giving power] aganes thame … till obiect, except and aganesay, to repley, dupley, tripley, and quadrupley 1509 Ib. 74.
To repley, duply, triply, and gif mister be quadruply 1663 Justiciary Ct. Rec. I. 76.
Duplys Birnie for the pannells, oppones the act of parliament [etc.]
b. tr. To allege in a duply.1600 Crim. Trials II. 120.
It was duplyit, that [etc.] 1615 Shetland Sheriff Ct. 13.
To the quhilk it wes duplyit … that the said reply aucht to be repellit 1661 Justiciary Ct. Rec. I. 8.
Duplyed, the minæ et damnum mak but a presumption at most in this case 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. i. xxiv. § 4.
To which it was duplyed, that the same hazard was in wodsets 1691 Melville Corr. 161.
To this it was duplyed, that it was commonly practised otherwayes in the late times
