A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1596
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Parfit(e, -fyt(e, a. [ME. and e.m.E. parfit (Cursor M.), -fite (Rolle), -fitt, also parfijt (c 1290), superl. parfytest (1542); appar. obs. after c 1550 except in Eng. dial.; OF. parfit, -fite (11th c. in Littré). Cf. Parfait a., Perfite a.]
a. = Perfite a. 1. b. = Perfite a. 2. c. = Perfite a. 3.a. (1) 1531 Bell. Boece I. 33.
The crown … to be gevin to thaim at thair parfite age 1596 James VI Facs. Nat. MSS. III. lxxiv.
Madame … ye are cum to parfite aage(2) a1400 Legends of the Saints l. 705.
Na for to part fra dedlik mane For hyme nan end has na begane Jhesu Crist that is king parfyt c1450-2 Howlat 991 (A).
And boith war thai dowis In the forest forsaid frely parfyte(3) a1400 Legends of the Saints i. 256.
For thefis amang thame pece parfyte [: profyte] Viil have a1400 Ib. x. 85, etc.
Sancte Mathew gaf the heile parfyte [: meryte] a1500 Henr. Orph. 449 (A). c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. iii (B).
I tak on me ane pair of Lowthiane hippis Sall fairar Inglis mak & mair parfyte Than thow can blabbar with thy Carrik lippis a1568 Bannatyne MS 41 a/8.
A parfyt luve good Lord grant vnto meb. (1) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvii. 474.
Til thu … is parfyt man in Cryst a1400 Ib. 848.
That thaim parfit in Godis lare He mad a1400 Ib. xxxii. 631.
In science he wox parfyt a1400 Ib. xl. 96.
He thocht he wald … be parfite in to sic lare a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 498 (M).
Nother parfyte in poesie nor prose(2) a1400 Legends of the Saints xix. 456.
& thai hycht to do that tyt Fore thai ware bordalouris parfytc. a1400 Legends of the Saints xviii. 58.
Sa parfyt is nane that [etc.] a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 317 (Asl.).
Spirituale fude quhilk is werray parfyte
