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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: 1513-1515, 1577-1626

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Besege, Beseige, v. Also: beseedge, beseidge, besidge, besaige, bysege. [ME. be-, bisege (c 1300), biseige, besiege, f. Sege v.] tr. To besiege, invest.c1515 Asloan MS I. 307/14 (he besegit Rome). 1513 Doug. iii. i. 96 (quhen he saw the town besegyt all about). 1513 Ib. xi. vii. 21 (for to bysege the wallys of our toun). a1578 Pitsc. I. 141/1 (he beseigit the castell thairof). 1622-6 Bisset II. 428/13 (King Edwarde caused besaige the toun).

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