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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1503, 1590-1660
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Pupil(l, Popill, Peupill, n.1 Also: -le, -ile, -yl(l, -ylle, -ell(e, -ule; pewpyl. [ME puple (Cursor M.), ill, -ile etc., popill (Manning), -le, e.m.E. peuple (Caxton): cf. Peopill and Pepil(l.] People. = Pepil(l n.(1) a1400 Legends of the Saints iv 16.
This James … the wa can ta so Spanȝe … That puple to Cristyne treutht to brynge c1420 Wynt. i 726.
Besyde the wattyr of Gangis, A pupyll thai say lywand is But othir met than of ayre c1420 Ib. ii 827.
Fra the Egyptis drownyd were Chasand the pupyll of Israelle(2) 1375 Barb. ii 546.
The assailȝeis … slew the pupill but recour a1400 Legends of the Saints V 291.
Al tha that mad sacrifice Til mawmentis … Ine the puple [raisit] secucione a1400 Ib. xxi 918.
The pupule come to se His fertyre a1400 Ib. xxvi 1091.
Thane the puple can kneis bou, Thankand God [etc.] a1400 Ib. v 382, vi 372, vii 173. c1420 Wynt. ii 310.
That had the pupylle noyit mare, Ne ware that [etc.] c1460 Thewis Wysemen 62.
Sa dois … clerkis that to the pupile prechis 1473 Acts II 105/2.
The siluer … is sa fer scaithit … that the pupill is … dissauit thairthrow(b) 1596 Mill Mediæval Plays 244.
Quhilk lattis the meting of the pople to the preiching 1660 Sutherland Bk. II 181.
You knowe what ane aweband it will be on the popell to hawe ane stranger commissar of this shyre(c) 1604 Craig in Fugitive Poetry II i 9/23.
The peupill now is blith, the widow weepes not now c1590 J. Stewart 95/567.
Quhan raging Roland ruschit out The peuple all fast fled(3) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxiii 302.
The king … al the puple that he had Come Cristine a1400 Ib. vi 234. 1398–9 Acts I 211/1.
All the thyngis that the kyng in his crownyng wes suorne for til do to haly kyrke & the pupyl c1420 Wynt. v 4579.
The pupill [C. pupil] and the clergy In this discordyd vylausly 1456 Hay II 145/9.
His governaunce of his puple a1500 Lancelot of the Laik 1702.
So with thi pupelle sal thow thé aquaynt 1646 Old Ross-shire II 14.
I have receavit yours this day … from Skibo shewing ther popill in the west of our countrey can not keepe our randevouss at Knokartoll 1646 Ib. 15.
& by God's assistance stryve to saiff our popell(4) c1420 Ratis Raving 1606.
Quhilys weir and gret infyrmyte Of puple 1456 Hay II 94/27.
All craftis and labouragis puple in his realme c1460 Wisdom of Solomon (S.T.S.) 19.
To serve the pupill & vtheris levand bestis of the erde c1460 Ib. 402.
Gret lordis ar quhilum hafand powar our mony puple 1503 Kal. Sheph. (1503) a iiii b.
Shyppars & other pewpyl
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