Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
scale . - noun An obsolete form of
school . - noun An obsolete form of
school .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete School.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Also fro Nazarethe, men gon to the Mount Thabor; and that is a 4 myle: and it is a fulle faire hille, and well highe, where was wont to ben a toun and many chirches; but thei ben alle destroyed; but zit there is a place, that men clepen the scole of God, where he was wont to teche his disciples, and tolde hem the prevytees of hevene.
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Also fro Nazarethe, men gon to the Mount Thabor; and that is a 4 myle: and it is a fulle faire hille, and well highe, where was wont to ben a toun and many chirches; but thei ben alle destroyed; but zit there is a place, that men clepen the scole of God, where he was wont to teche his disciples, and tolde hem the prevytees of hevene.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The young mistess would scole me but young marster would say
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My Missus got into a great quarrel wid her husband; she had an awful temper, an 'she would scole an' storm, an 'call him all sorts of names.
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¶ But oonly hym where hast {thou} go to scole. yast and oonhl
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Freres is a noble librarye and a grete, [190] and so that ene rech Frere that hath state in scole, siche as thei beth nowe, hath an hughe librarye.
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And, Modyr, I beseche you that ye wol be good mastras to my lytyll man & to se that he go to scole.
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If it be objected that the word "cote" is not in use in this sense, it may be remarked that French, "After the scole of Stratford atte bowe," might borrow such a meaning to suit the sound, from "côte," in the sense of
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Eschewe thou that, for swich thing to thee scole is;
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A _scole_ of or indeed, a single, devil fish (_Lophius_) when deep in the water, may appear like a shoal; and I think, that of all the various appearances of strange things seen at sea, this monstrous animal is more likely to deceive the judgment into a belief of a submarine danger being where none actually exists, than any other.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831
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