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1535 D. Lindsay 4254 Tak me an rackles rubyatour, Ane theif, ane tyrane, or ane tratour, Of everie vyce the plant.
1568 D. Lindsay Answer Kingis Flyting l. 48 in (1931) I. 103 For, lyke ane boisteous Bull, ye rin and ryde Royatouslie lyke ane rude Rubeatour.
1568 (?a1513) W. Dunbar in W. T. Ritchie (1928) II. 149 Sa mony tratouris, Sa mony rubeatouris [a1586 Maitl. F. rebiatouris] Wtin this land [was nevir hard nor sene].
a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) ix. 60 in (2000) I. 173 Purspeiller, hen steiller, cat keiller, now I knaw þe, Rubiatour, fornicatour by natour, foul fa the.
?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun (1891) I. xlv. 357 For laik of rowme, that rubiature Bespewit vp the moderator.
1814 J. Galt Watch-house ii. i, in I. 60 They a' barkit at me, like sae many rabiators.
1825 J. Jamieson Suppl. at Rubiature He comes out on me roaring like a rubiator, Roxb[urghshire].
1832 in A. Wilson (1844) 314 The highland rabeatours..are here; we're a' ruined and ravished!
1887 J. Service 258 ‘The auld rabiawtor!’ quo he,..‘my gear is traiket, there's a wadset on my lands, and my wine-caskets are dung a' to staves.’
1999 (Nexis) 27 July 7 Robert De Niro, sustained by his inherently flagitious appearance appropriate for one who is such a rabiator, moved us to assess our own meaningless lives.