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† proˈlixt, -xed, a. Sc. Obs.
[Sc. var. of prolix (cf. Sc. taxt = tax, vext = vex, etc.), afterwards mistaken for a pa. pple.]
= prolix a. 1.
c1450Holland Howlat 34 All thar names to nevyn..It war prolixt and lang. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 7 It war our lang and prolixit thing to count all. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) II. 112 His oresoun, the quhilk wes so prolixt, Wald mar my mynd and I had with it fixt. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 62 The scheiphird..endit his prolixt orison. 1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 20 The easiest and shortest of all his difficile and prolixed Poems.
Hence † proˈlixitness = prolixity 1.
1508Dunbar Poems vii. 83, I lefe, for grete prolixitnes, To tell quhat feildis thou wan in Pikkardy. |