Lexicographical Neighbors of Effeir
Literary usage of Effeir
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are Explained in by John Jamieson (1867)
"To effeir, vn 1. To become ; to fit. Chr. Kirk. 2. ... effeir, i. 1. What is
becoming. ... effeir, ». a. 1. To fear. Lyndsay. 2. To affright. ..."
2. The Poems of William Dunbar by William Dunbar, George Powell McNeill (1893)
"His deed is all but fruitless, and fails at the critical point. effeir= condition,
quality, deed. O.Fr. afere, Lat . facere. Bishop Douglas uses the word— ..."
3. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"To become ; to fit. Chr. Kirk. 2. To be proportional to. Knox. effeir,«. 1.
What is becoming. ... To effeir, ». n. To fear. ..."
4. Satirical Poems of the Time of the Reformation by Robert Sempill, Thomas Churchyard (1893)
"... fresh warlike equipment — " And fast thai come full awful in effeir." — '
Wallace,' Bk. iii. l. 132. ..."
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