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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1575, 1653
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Vis(e, Vice, n.1 Also: wice, wyse. [ME vyse (1387-8), aphetic f. Avise n.1] a. Counsel, advice. b. Ane vis, put for avise by erron. division and substitution of ane for a. —a. a1500 Lancelot of the Laik 1907.
To restren his honde Frome his pupleis riches & ther lond. Mot euery king have this wice in mynd 1571 J. Maitland in Satirical Poems xxvii 109.
Mark als the wite, vise [v.r. wyse; M. wyld], wituper, and the waige Off wntreid traisoun and of tyrannye 1572-5 Diurnal of Occurrents 289.
Lord Claud Hamiltoun manit the castell of Blacknes, and placit men of weir thairin, and thairefter past to Kilwynyng. This wes not without vice of Alexander Stewart, capitane thairof, and that becaus he wes chargeit to rander the samyne to the regent 1653 Hibbert P. No. 15.
Wntill the tyme I haiff ȝour … guid vice & licens —b. 1538 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 192.
This … inquest chossyne with ane vis of the forsaidis bailyeis
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