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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: 1500-1621

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Baptising, Bapteising, vbl. n. Also: baptasing, bap-, babtizing, baptezinig. [ME. baptizing (c 1300).] Baptism.Baptysyne in Wynt. i. Prol. 85 and vi. 1054 (R) is evidently due to a misreading of baptysme as baptysine.c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxiii. 9 Asl. (fra baptising [B. baptasing] for till eschewe). 1558 Q. Kennedy Tractive 168 (baptising of barnis). 1572-5 Diurnal of Occurrents 102 (the bapteising of our prince). 1581 Acts III. 221/2 (that na banquettis salbe eftir babtizing of bairnis). 1621 Ib. IV. 597/1 (the baptezing of infantis).

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