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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Actitat(e, p.p. [med.L. actitatus.] = actit, Act v. 3.1531 Reg. S. Trin. 100.
The forsaid Robert [is] actitat for the obseruing off thir premissis in the officialis bukis
1538 Crim. Trials I. *207.
Suerte being first funding … and actitate in the bukis of Adiurnale
1556 Stirling B. Rec. I. 67.
The said Jonat … become actitat and oblist in this manir
1599 St. A. Kirk S. 890.
[Thai] ar becum actitat that if thai be fund in the lyik fault heireftir, … thai salbe punished

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