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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Minorité, -itie, -ity(e, n. Also: minoreté, -ietie, -até, -atie; minorté; mynoryté, -itie; menorité, -itie, -etie. [e.m.E. minoritie, inferiority (1533), nonage (1579–80), F. minorité, med. L. minoritas.] The state of being minor or under legal age, nonage.See also the vernacular equivalent, Les age n. 1, for some further examples.(a) 1493 Acts II. 236/1.
Persounis … may at thair perfectioun of age mak reuocatioun … of thingis done preiudiciall to thame in thair minorities 1516 Reg. Privy S. I. 431/2. 1526 Lennox Mun. 226.
The tym of our mynoryte, we beand of tendyr age 1542–43 Rec. Earld. Orkney 104.
Quhilkis the forsaid Williame Groit intromettit with in to my minorete and youtheid 1553 4th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 537/2.
Be ressoun of his minoratie 1559 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. I. 184.
He is in minoritie and les aige and within curatorie 1561 Montgomery Mem. 160. 1562 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 145.
The baillies … admittis the said maister Jhonne to preif the minoritie of the abbat of Halierudhous … viz. the said abbat to haue bene within the aige of xiiij yeris 1563 Reg. Privy S. V. i. 415/1. 1565–6 Reg. Privy C. I. 428.
In the minoriteis of his said umquhile fadir and him 1566 Montgomery Mem. 202. a1570-86 Maitland Maitl. F. clxxx. 61. a1578 Pitsc. I. 69/8.
During the Kingis minorietie 1570 Leslie 154.
Mynoritie 1587–8 Prot. Bk. J. Inglis 3 Feb.
In respect of his minorate that he wes nocht of perfyit age 1591 Edinb. Test. XXII. 341.
He to be administratour to thaim induring thair minorteis 1633 Acts V. (1870) 24/1. 1684 Decis. Lords F. 60.
Antonia Broun as heir to her father … having reduced the service upon minority and lesion(b) 1542 Acts II. 422/2.
The said confessioun was maid be the said Jhone … in his menorite nocht knawand [etc.] a1578 Pitsc. I. 149/11.
Induiring the Kingis lesage and menoretie Ib. 151/4.
That seit … That they haue keipit in the Kingis menoritieb. 1632 Lithgow Trav. 415.
Youth. Such a man can niether seduce his minority with ill examples nor marre his waxen age with a false impression