A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Allocat, p.p. Also: allocate. [med.L. allocatus. The verb allocate was first used by Sc. writers (17–18th c.).] Allocated, assigned. —1567 Dundee B. Laws 372.
The haill printies fie … salbe … allocat, allowit, and stand for the said printeis meat [etc.] 1587 Edinb. Test. XVIII. 241 b.
Sowmes of money quhilkis I haif gewin … to be allocat in the maillis of the saidis landis1661 Decis. Lords G. 2.
Lockerbie got a new tack from the Town of Glasgow, which reserves what is allocate to the minister
