A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1489-1607
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Accept, Accep, v.1 Also: accepte, axceppt, accaip, excep. [ME. (c 1380), f. L. accept-us: see Accept,p.p.] tr. To accept, receive.(a) c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 46/23 (that he will heir and accepte thame [sc. devotions]). 1519 Edinb. B. Rec. 192 (that ye accept the said office). 1555 Ib. 217 (to accept vpoun him to be ane of the personis). a1585 Maitland Quarto MS xli. 128 (quhidder ȝe me accept or nocht). 1596 Dalr. I. 249/25 (a monasterie to accepte thame intil). 1607 Highland P. III. 105 (to axceppt quhatt his Maiestie wil bestow).(b) 1489–90 Acts Lords Auditors 136/2 (the quhilk office of curatoury the said lord William accepit). 1490 Irland Mir. I. 19/14 (Jhesus acceps oure prayere). c1490 Id. Asl. MS. I. 22/18 (God accepis thy seruice). 1533 Bell. Livy I. 24/6 (he acceppit the werdis). a1578 Pitsc. I. 297/22 (accepit). 1589 St. A. Kirk S. 642 (to accep the office).
