also COSTEOUS, COSTEUOUS, COSTEVOUS, COSTIFOUS, COSTIOSE, COSTIUS, COSTUOUS, COSTYOUS, COUSTOUSE CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES from Anglo French coustous, costeous = Old French cousteus, now coûteux costly, from cost cost (n.) the price paid for a thing; the forms costevous, costifous appear to be after bountevous, -yvous, from Old French bontif 1340 - Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt; see below From: Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt, or, Remorse of Conscience in the Kentish Dialect, 1340 A.D. Edited by Richard Morris Published for the Early English Text Society, 1866 P. 228 From: The Early Works of Thomas Becon
Edited for the Parker Society by the Rev. John Ayre, 1843 The Nosegay P. 226
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