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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: 1400-1626

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Chesing, Cheising, vbl. n. Also: chesyng, chess-, cheissing, schesing. [ME. chesyng, -ing, early ME. chesunge, f. Chese v., Schese v. Cf. Chusing vbl. n.] Choosing, selection.14.. Acts I. 35/2.
Of the chesyng of the borowgreffis
1456 Hay II. 15/5.
The chesing and electioun … thame thocht nocht … was sufficiand
1456 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 15.
Throw the chesing of a baillie that is now chosin
1539 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries II. 399.
The counsall to convene to the towbuyth … for chesing of the Abbot of Unressoun
1550 Ann. Banff I. 28.
The chesing and elecing of the provest
1553 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 179.
The act maid be the conuentioun of borrowis twichand the chesyng of the officeris of burgh
1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 16.
The day afor the cheising of the new censouris
1571 Lanark B. Rec. 58.
The ellecting and chessing of ane provest
1571 Ib. 59.
The said allegens suld nocht prettermet the cheissing of the provest
1582 Laing Chart. 259 (see Schese v.)
Schesing
1603 Moysie 12.
They proceidit to the cheising first of the lordis of artickelis
1622-6 Bisset I. 107/23.
The complaynt of cheising of ȝoung men … upoun the said sessioun

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