A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1630, 1685
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Prefixt, Prefixit, ppl. adj. Also: prefixitt, prefixed. Also with altered prefix: profixit. [e.m.E. prefixt (1605), prefixed (1652).] Appointed or settled beforehand, predetermined.Chiefly of an arranged date.(1) 1531 Bell. Boece I 14.
The Pichtis … commandit … na Scottis to be found within ony townis … of Pichtis, efter ane prefixit [M. prefixitt] day 1531 Ib. 241.
All Scottis … to pas out of Albioun at ane prefixt day 1531 Ib. II 261.
To appele the thevis … in barras, aganis ane prefixit day 1531 Ib. 17.
Prefixit 1533 Id. Livy II 172/11. 1533 Ib. 219 (B). 1559–60 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries XI 521.
And as to the payment of the said soume agane at ony prefixt tyme sche rememberis nocht 1565 Reg. Privy C. I 350.
To haif convenit at certane prefixt dayis and places mentionat c1590 Fowler II 170/32.
That the very prefixt daies of the baptisme were … delaied c1590 Ib. 171/2.
Prefixed 1630 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 248.
Glengarie … came not to Edinburgh at the prefixt day 1630 Ib. 373.(2) a1500 Henr. Orph. 575 (Bann.).
Without profixit caus and certane Quhilk nane in erd may knaw1685 Skene Mem. Burghs 21.
Then they choose the prefixed number, that are appointed to be new counsellours for the ensuing year
