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Quotation dates: 1400-1533
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Rammist, -yst, adj. Also: -est; -ys; ramist, -ysset, -ysde.[Altered form of Ramage adj.1, ? with the ending conformed to that of a past participle. See also Rammis v.] = Ramage adj.1a. c1460 Alex. (Taym.) (ed.) 487.
That man his are suld be Quhilk mycht and durst the ramist distrale dantb. 14.. Regiam Majestatem c. 180.
Gif he be a lunatik or rammyst c1450 Craft of Deyng (S.T.S.) 120.
Sua mony of thir men gangis rammys 1456 Hay I 245/19.
A woodman, a ramysde fule that for lytill gude wald sett his lyf in perile 1531 Bell. Boece I 186.
The residew … come with ane huge nowmer of stanis … on the kingis army, as rammist and wod creaturis 1533 Id. Livy I 65/21.
Ane parte thareof … ran as blynd and rammyst pepill in the wattirtransf. c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 18227.
It semyt that scho was dede quyte away Than in a rammest wodnes vp he raisc. 1501 Treasurer's Accounts II 118.
To Schir Andro Murrayis man that brocht ane ramysset halk to the king
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