a. and sb. Obs. Also 6 Sc. fulage, -ege. [a. OF. folage adj. and sb. (repr. popular L. types *follāticus, -um), f. fol FOOL. The 17th c. sb. may be a new formation on FOOL + -AGE.]

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  A.  adj. Sc. Foolish. Hence Foolageness.

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1560.  Rolland, The Court of Venus, II. 70.

        Quhairfoir we think, that ȝe haif preuit fulage
For to offend that Souerane.

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1563.  Winȝet, Four Scoir Thre Questions, To Rdr., Wks. 1888, I. 55. That sik proud, fulege phantaseis, pyntit leis, brutall irreligiositie, and damnable errouris, as now regnis in the place of syncere veritie and trew Catholik religioun. Ibid., 62. Insipientia eorum, says the Apostill, manifesta erit omnibus, sicut et illorum fuit—that is, the fulegenes of thame salbe maid manifest to all men, as wes the fulegenes of Iannes and Jambres.

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  B.  sb. Foolish condition.

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1676.  Cal. St. Papers, Amer. & W. Ind. (1893), No. 937. 398. [Old Governor Berkeley altered, by marrying a young wife, from his wonted public good to a] covetous foolage.

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