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Selcouth

Selcouth \Sel"couth\ (s[e^]l"k[=oo]th), a. [AS. selc[=u][eth], seldc[=u][eth]; seld rare + c[=u][eth] known. See Uncouth.] Rarely known; unusual; strange. [Obs.]

[She] wondered much at his so selcouth case.
--Spenser.

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selcouth

a. strange, unusual, rare; unfamiliar; marvellous, wondrous.

Usage examples of "selcouth".

Yet nathemore his meaning she ared,But wondred much at his so selcouth case,And by his persons secret seemlyhedWell weend, that he had beene some man of place,Before misfortune did his hew deface:That being mou'd with ruth she thus bespake.