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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Heichtly, adv. Also: heycht-, heightly, -lie. [Var. of Heichly adv., with excrescent -t as in Heicht a.] Highly; haughtily, scornfully.Brus xii. 250 (E).
For [= because] thai lat of ws heychtly [C. lichtly] 1558-66 Knox I. 47.
The Bischope was heightly offended, asweill at the … bitter mock, [etc.] Ib. 278.
Considder … how heychtlie it lyes bayth to my honour and conscience a1578 Pitsc. I. 44/21.
[He] repruiffit thame heightlie 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 265.
Quhairat the lord Seytoun wes heichtlie movit
