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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1562-1667
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Celebrat, -ate, v. Also: selebrat. [e.m.E. celebrate (1560). Cf. Celebrat,ppl.a.]
1. tr. To celebrate. (Also as p.t. and p.p.)(a) 1562-3 Winȝet I. 116/18.
Quhy ar ȝe sa bauld … to celebrat ȝour Sabbath day with ws Catholikis? a1585 Maitland Quarto MS xciv. 14.
Thou sall his glore … proclame, And celebrat 1596 Dalr. I. 214/5.
Historiographouris … celebratis it in thair warkes 1631 Edinburgh Testaments LV. 173.
My saides executouris … to celebrat my funerall honourablie(b) 1583 Sempill Sat. P. xlv. 166.
When he that sermone celebrat, He had a worde accustomat 1596 Dalr. I. 107/28.
This prais hes bene celebrate in al ages amang the Bischopes 1614 Ayr Friars Pr. Chart. 113.
For suffrages to be celebrat ony maner of way 1642 S. Leith Kirk S. 40.
The comunione … was to be selebrat the nixt twa Lords dayes 1667 Dunferm. Kirk S. 63.
That the comunion be celebrat … in the midle or bodie of the Kirk
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