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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Discontigue, a. [f. Contigue a.] Not contiguous; disconnected, lying apart. 1538 Balfour Pract. 175.
Landis lyand discontigue fra uther landis, and not annexit or unite to the samin, may not be callit pertinentis thairof 1539 Reg. Cupar A. II. 298.
Landis … lyand alsuele contigue as discontigue uithin the shirefdomes of Forfar [etc.] 1596 Paisley B. Rec. 187.
The fyve ruids comoun-land lyand discontigue 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. ii. 125.
Gif the lands lyes within sundrie schirefdomes, or regalities, or gif they ly in any ane of them, discontigue 1621 Acts IV. 622/1.
Giff the landis ly discontigue and far frome the schirreffis residence 1707 Glasgow Chart. II. 426.
Four aikeris … lying discontigue in the said Muir of Gorballs