umquhile meaning

or umwhile /umˈhwīl/ (archaic, chiefly Scot)
  adverb and adjective
  (at) one time, former(ly)
  ORIGIN: OE ymb(e) hwīle about or at a time

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1. On 8 September in that year, a grant is recorded to Sir John Dingwall, " Provost of Trinity College, beside Edinburgh, of the ward of the lands of Gairloch, which pertained to the umquhile Achinroy [ Hector ] Mackenzie ."
2. A will, dated at Over Kirkwood, 28 August 1677, states " the said umquhile Hew Nevin of Kirkwood, he ordains that his body be buried in the churchyard of Kilwinning in his father s burial place of Kilwinning ".
3. A will, dated at Over Kirkwood, 28 August 1677, states " the said umquhile Hew Nevin of Kirkwood, he ordains that his body be buried in the churchyard of Kilwinning in his father's burial place of Kilwinning ".
4. "Reference is made to the mansion in a decree of the Lords of Council, dated 25th June 1494, which decerns two persons, both named William Douglas, to content and pay to Walter Scott of Buccleuch, grandson of umquhile [ former ] David Scott, for certain goods'spuilzeit, distroyit, and taken by Simon Routlage in the Trowis, and Matthew Routlage, his son, and ther complicis, fra the said umquhile David and his tenentis, and as to the avale of the saidis goodis, and the dampnage and scaithis sustenit by the birnying of the place and manor of Bukcleuch,'alleged to extend to 1000 merks ."
5. "Reference is made to the mansion in a decree of the Lords of Council, dated 25th June 1494, which decerns two persons, both named William Douglas, to content and pay to Walter Scott of Buccleuch, grandson of umquhile [ former ] David Scott, for certain goods'spuilzeit, distroyit, and taken by Simon Routlage in the Trowis, and Matthew Routlage, his son, and ther complicis, fra the said umquhile David and his tenentis, and as to the avale of the saidis goodis, and the dampnage and scaithis sustenit by the birnying of the place and manor of Bukcleuch,'alleged to extend to 1000 merks ."