A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1594-1652
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Bastant, -and, a. [F. bastant.] Sufficient; sufficiently strong.1594 Colville Lett. 112.
That force which be all apperance is bastand for all the papistis of Scotland 1599 Ib. 198.
A bastant army 1637 Monro Exped. I. 20 (J).
If we had been provided of ball, we were sufficiently bastant to have kept the passe against our enemy 1637 Ib. 80 (J).
His Majestie, … not being bastant to resist the enemy, retired confusedly 1652 Urquhart Jewel 194.
Nor is the perfectest [language] … , without being beholden to another, … bastant to afford instruction
