† 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.
| c 1450 Holland Howlat 34 All thar names to nevyn..It war prolixt and lang. 1456 Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 7 It war our lang and prolixit thing to count all. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) II. 112 His oresoun, the quhilk wes so prolixt, Wald mar my mynd and I had with it fixt. 1549 Compl. Scot. vi. 62 The scheiphird..endit his prolixt orison. 1585 Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 20 The easiest and shortest of all his difficile and prolixed Poems. |
Hence † proˈlixitness = prolixity 1.
| 1508 Dunbar Poems vii. 83, I lefe, for grete prolixitnes, To tell quhat feildis thou wan in Pikkardy. |