c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, x. (Matthew), 10. Lewy, Þat as a tollare þare wes sate, Vnlessume wynnynge for to get.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xvii. 16. Thir merchantis takis vnlesum win.
1552. Lyndesay, Monarche, 5104. And sum, for thare vnleifsum actis, Ar rent and rewin apone the ractis.
1600. Hamilton, in Cath. Tractates (S.T.S.), 235. How mony young wemon … hes murtherit the fruict of thair auin wombes, some be vnlisome drinkis.
1864. Latto, Tam. Bodkin, x. 92. The loons that had received the unleisum stoutherie. Ibid., xvii. 170. The unleisome possession o’ the game.
So Unleesomely adv. ? Obs.
c. 1400. Sc. Trojan War, II. 1103. [To] lat of hyr virgynite The closoures vnlefsomely [L. illicite] To be broken.
1528. Lyndesay, Dreme, 230. Vnleifsumlie thay vsit propertie.
a. 1578. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), II. 207. Putting hand in the quenis grace vnlesomelie … but athir law or ressoune.
