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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: 1564-1686
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Comprising, -prysing, vbl. n. Also: compryissing, -priceing. [f. Comprise v.]
1. Appraising, valuation.1564 Ham. & Campsie Test. I. 21.
The quhilkis personis … comprysit the hale gudis and geir … Quhilk comprising being sua maid [etc.] 1661 Misc. Spald. C. V. 232.
The persone appointed … sall be comptabill for the skaith, and pey the same efter compryissing
2. Attachment, distraint.1609 Skene Reg. Maj. ii. 110.
Summons vpon the ground … is vsed in perambulations, comprisings of lands [etc.] 1622-6 Bisset I. 242/23.
Poynding and comprysing of movabill guidis is ane principall and first forme of executioun of decreittis 1621 Acts VI. 204/1.
Where lands are affected with wadsets, comprisings, assignments, or back-takes 1638 Rec. Aboyne 306.
The toun and landes … to be frie and salve from all … purpresturas, disclamationes, … compriceinges [etc.] 1661 Red Bk. Grandtully II. 161.
Quho has arrested the ferms and dewties, by vertew of a comprysing led against these lands 1686 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII. 52.
The late Viscount of Frendraughts estate wes absorbed by expyred comprysings befor the Viscountess maried his sone
