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: 1474, 1560
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Avising, Avysing, vbl. n. [Avise v.] = Avisement. —1474 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 29.
For the comouning and avising for the gude of the hale craft 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 192/31.
Incontinent without mair auysing … he said [etc.]