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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Appropinquacioun, n. [L. appropinquātio. Also e.m.E. and mod. appropinquation (1628).] Approach. —1490 Irland Mir. MS. 294 a.
All thire greis … are multiplyit … in safer as thai serue … and has appropinquacioun to the haly eucharist
