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.
Quotation dates: 1492, 1552-1614
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Adjacent, a. and n. (adiasent, agiscent). [ME. adjacent (c 1430), L. adjacent-, adjacens.]
1. adj. Lying near or close (to, till, etc.).1492 Myll Spectakle of Luf 288/26 (the warld towart hire adiacent). 1552 Reg. Cupar A. II. 103 (nixt adiacent the tway acris). 1555 Peebles B. Rec. 218 (telit be nychbouris adiacent). a1578 Pitsc. I. 89/18 (pairts neir adiacent vnto him). 1590 Dundee B. Laws 513 (neir and adiasent to ȝour bruche.). c 1614 Melrose P. (the countrie peopil next agiscent).
2. n. pl. Adjacent lands or territories.1560 Buke of Discipline 203.
The North Ylis of the Sky, and the Lewis, with thair adjacentis 1560 Ib.
Arran and Bute, with their adjacents
