A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Assurit, ppl. a. Also: assuirit, assureit, assuret; assur(e)d, -id, assuir(e)d, asseured (ashured, asoored). [ME. assured (1430), f. the verb: see Assure,v.]
1. Made sure or certain; certified, guaranteed.c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxiv. 1 (my swete assured fo). 1558 Q. Kennedy Tractive 109 (ane assurit way). 1563 Davidson Answer 256 (the assurit treuth). a1570-86 Maitl. F. clxx. 58 (our maist asseured ayd). 1584 Waus Corr. I. 285 (your L. assuret freynd). 1604 Misc. Hist. Soc. II. 247 (your maist assurid brother).
2. Protected by an ‘assurance’.1550 Reg. Privy C. I. 84.
Thair is diverse assurit personis … sittis under assurance duelland within the boundes of the Merse 1551 Acts II. 484/1.
Gif thay assurit persounis spulȝeit haue iust actioun to ask restitutioun of thair gudis
